So Much For Earth Day
E-mails, instant messaging, and blackberries that we can’t live without. In the last ten years, we have become obsessed with the speed in which we communicate.
Everything needs to move fast. We have no attention span. A website takes too long to load, and we move onto the next site. Nobody wants to wait because nobody has the time to wait.
Which is why it should come as no surprise that Earth Day might actually be replaced by Earth Hour.
Today, 26 major cities around the world are taking part in the Earth Hour Movement in which each city will turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming.
Organizers hope that the initiative will encourage people to be more aware of the energy usage, knowing that producing electricity pollutes the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels which are contributing to global warming.
I’m sure an hour will be plenty of time to convey that message, after all who really wants to spend a whole day saving the earth? Not me, I have e-mails to return.
And you’re quite prompt at returning emails too.
P.S. My Blackberry is next to me when I sleep. The first thing I do after hitting snooze is grab it and read emails through squinty eyes as I am still half-asleep. Do you think that’s bad??
It’s a faily stupid initiative, this about switching everything off simultaneously only to then swtich everything back up an hour later.
For one, it is a rather dangerous and wreckless thing to do because of the power that needs to be taken off, then back onto, the grid. Secondly, it sounds nothing less than a spoilt kid’s tantrum.
As Gandhi said, if people really want to make a difference, they need to start being the change itself. Until then, initiatives like this are doomed to fail.
We still have Earth Day. It’s April 22nd. Is your post suggesting that taking an hour on March 29th to make more people aware a bad thing?