Lights out! It’s Earth Hour time!

    For one night, on March 24 at 8:30 p.m., turn your lights off for one hour to conserve energy. Support climate change awareness and reduce your carbon footprint for one hour. Then, imagine turning your lights off for an hour each night or every time you leave a room. Even more amazing is when 120 million people around the world, turn their lights off to raise awareness about climate change. For one hour, we are on the same page, but not all at the same time. It’s the thought that counts toward climate change because it gets everyone thinking deeper.
    When 120 million people around the world turn their lights out, this makes a huge impact. Think of the substantial energy reduction. This is the main goal of World Wide Foundation WWF. Starting in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people participated in turning their lights off to raise awareness of climate change. Since 2007, Earth Hour increased from one city to 88 cities in 2009, and in 2017, 187 countries and territories turned their lights off, including 12,000 landmarks and monuments. From turning the lights off, to turning an awareness on about climate change.
    At a grassroots level, this is your opportunity as an individual to make a positive impact on the planet we all call home. The goal of WWF is to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Will we make it? Will you help? One small act toward conserving energy every day makes a big difference to climate change.
    According to scientists, we currently have the highest amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in over 800,000 years. This is driven by the use of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, according to WWF, human activity is the main driver of the unprecedented levels of biodiversity loss which impacts our forests, oceans and ecosystems that are the planet’s first line of defense against threats like climate change. On a positive note, teams in Brazil, Ukraine and Japan are raising awareness about biodiversity and getting public support for action to protect biodiversity.
 

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