Sunday, March 29, 2009

Earth Hour : Purely symbolical acts and what it signifies?!!!

Lighten up or darken down, whichever takes your fancy??!!....
It's symbolical, but that's not all.

Turning the lights off for an hour last Saturday at 8.30pm is a small, simple act that is easy to publicise and the results is highly visible to be observe. And, best of all, WWF had claim that the action makes a positive and even measurable contribution to the core issue – reducing emissions.
Sounds great haaaa...???!!!!
But does it really reduces the emissions of the green house effects???
This had kept me wondering for last night when I lost in thought watching the lights goes off from the prided skyscraper of KLCC....(not mentioning I'm surfing internet outside the balcony during that time..obviously x participating in earth hour) Hahahaha......kantoi...!!!! But what's wrong with that?

Well, my act does state what I feel about this issue. Come on guys...this whole campaign is just a symbolical act.
So don't curse me for not voting.
But then again this symbolical acts makes me thinking what is the relevance and significant of those act??

On my own account, I just dont do it for the fact that I realy..realy..hate darkness.
Call it selfish or what but darkness is one thing that i can't cope with....
(thinking bout the boogey man whose lurking around get on my nerves...SPOOKKYY)
Personally I detest earth hour as
darkness evokes feelings of danger and insecurity.
Plusss....I personally think that by switching off light does'nt really help reducing watever they were claiming.
Do u really think that one hour does change the state of our worlds right now?
By switching off the light can the global warming be stop?
Does the emission of CO2 be reduces?
Does it put back the lives of the trees that has been cut down?
Does it going to prevent the melting of the ice cap in the North & South poles?

Personally, the answer is no....hahaha..unless we make it longer...let say one day (now..that really is sumthing)
As for only one hour the.... power industry and big industry will keep their production as they always keep spare capacity that will keep their turbines spinning......( tenaga simpanan la yek secara mudahnye)
Conclusion, if the industry had'nt be stop or control then how we r going to reduce watever that we want to???

None the least, this earth hour thing
really does reduce the power consumption ?!!
That a fact that cant be deny...but how much can we save in just one hour....obviously not much right!!!
But the one thing I like about this earth hour thing is that for some of us it open the oppurtunity
to appreciate the awesome beauty of the starry night sky......(only if the rain not pouring down!!!)
........Hehehehe...does'nt that increase the romantics side of a person......:>
As addition, that one hour might educate our younger generation
( older one like me is already to condemned to be fix....hahaha)
to reflect our growing "need" to turn on lights and appliances.

Soooo...
in term of public awareness...we might realize we really don't need to use so many or to use them so often.

Yeeeeaayy..would a day come where we can be free from electricity ???!!
Yet better...maybe a few of us will re-discover the joys of conservation for a short...
while having no television to turn on at the flick of a switch.

I suggest we make it a day...no a week, not an hour!!!!!

This maybe only a symbolic vote....
but it is a vote that has some tangible effect!!!!
this is a unifying act that demonstrates the strength of individual feeling....

Big applause for those parcipitating in Earth Hour and booooo to myself!!
But still ignorance is better than indifference right
(try sticking up the wet thread..!!..huhu)
Thats all & c ya in next update!!















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