60 Minutes

That’s all you need to conserve more energy, to create less waste, to create awareness among yourselves.

The world is slowly dying, and it’s all our fault. Before you start pointing fingers at one another(or at me), let me ask you this:

“Have you not once littered at places you’re not supposed to? Have you not once accepted food packed in styrofoams? “

or even simpler, “Have you not once used the refrigerator?”

It is our fault that the Earth is in such a sorry state right now. We create tonnes of waste each day, use more water and electricity than we need, and accept plastic bags and styrofoams just because we are too lazy to bring our own bags to keep our groceries and containers to keep our food.  It’s time for us to realise that if we do nothing, it won’t be long before Earth rejects us.

Earth Hour – It is the international event organised by the WWF, held on the last Saturday of March each year, asking people to turn off their non-essential ights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Climate change is only one of the problems we face. But I’m glad that the Malaysian government has already started urging the rakyat to use lesser plastic bags and styrofoams, though deforestation is still quite bad in our country.

So, turn off all your lights and non-essential-cum-energy-sucking electrical appliances for one hour tonight, from 8:30PM-9:30PM. You may not notice any significant drop in the charges of the next electrical bill, but some electricity saved here and there makes a huge difference!

Don’t tell me one hour is too much to ask for as you’ll miss your favourite TV program and you’ll get to enjoy the air-cond lesser and that you’re afraid of the dark. Stop being a couch potato and get out of the house! Go to the city! I may not have the information I need but I’m sure some popular landmarks like Dataran Merdeka and Petronas Twin Tower will turn off their lights for an hour in support of the event. I’m sure it’s worth switching off all the lights at home for just one hour to see how those landmarks look like at night without the lights.

As for me, I might ask some friends out to the city center. I’ve never seen Moscow city at night in total darkness, it will be fun.

~ by vic on March 28, 2009.