Dear Editor:
Earth Hour, held March 29, marked the start of the environmental revolution.
Said to have drastically lowered our emissions (10.2 per cent in 2007 in Sydney, Australia), Earth Hour did much more than we can believe. It has developed an enormous following, and has raised the attention of the global public of the impact we have on our world every day.
With 303,000 people and counting signed up for Earth Hour 2009, future years’ events seem to be getting better and better.
The success of this event will only lead to more events like it, and ones with longer and more effective campaigns in lowering our emission rate. Ultimately, the purpose was to show the public what we are capable of.
We can change the world days at a time, simply by turning off our lights, televisions or computers for an hour or so more than we normally would.
This world is the only world we have and in order to preserve it, we need to respect it by lowering and eventually eliminating our emission levels.
This event has done remarkably well with such minimal publicity, and raised the issue of the dire state of our environment. How enlightened we all have become from this simple event shows the capability we have if we work together, for what’s at stake is more than our environment, but our lives and those of our children as well.
With help from positive events like these, it seems the future is bright for the health of our environment, as well as us.