Is Earth Hour a farce?

It's clearly symbolic.But of what specifically? And what does it mean we should DO about it?

Otherwise is it so lost in symbolism it becomes irrelevant or misunderstood?

 

It is not just symbolic. Yes, subjectively it is about the concept of a better greener world. But more specifically it is about how every bit of energy counts. An hour with the lights off in your home really does not do much, but it is better then having those lights on for the same amount of time. Maybe one day when people can handle it (if they EVER will be able to again) it will change to earth day or week. Could you go a day without using any electricity? A week? How much is the earth worth to you?

 

I spent 9 days camping with a Cham community near kampong Som. I had no electricity and spent time planting rice in a village of about 100 people.

The earth is worth more to me than my personal comforts.

But I doubt the logic that giving up power consumption is necessarily beneficial to people or the environment. Certainly burning fossil fuels for electric energy is bad for the environment as it contributes to global warming.

But there are other sources of energy. It's limitless, and we'll need it to sustain out growing population. The places where energy consumption is increasing rapidly is in the developing world, where people need more energy to survive they're growing populations.

So the options seem to be either eugenics or investment and research in energy infrastructure.

I choose the latter.

 

Yes it's not interesting without some video that you want to watch at that moment..talking for that ?

 

if it's about awareness, it failed. this is the first i've heard about it.