Earth Hour 2008 March 29, 2008
Posted by wilson2002 in Earth Hour 2008.add a comment
I quote from Wikipedia:
“Earth Hour is an international event that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8 pm local time until 9 pm to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.”
In my opinion, this is a great effort in reminding everyone that the world is ailing. We need to do something so that our next generations would have a better place to live in.
Hong Kong is one of the participating cities. Many organizations and people have signed up to and pledged to power off during the stipulated period of time. Over in HKU, some departments and students have taken up the initiative to power off non-critical electrical appliances.
However not many people are aware of this program especially couples. They thought by powering down is to commemorate couples’ day or some sort of Valentine’s day. They took this opportunity to show affections at dark places.
After going through the 1-hour, I came to one conclusion. This noble program has been hijacked by ill-informed ignorance people -__-”
