Lights go dark to mark Earth Hour
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SYDNEY’S Opera House and Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness yesterday for the Earth Hour environmental campaign, among the first landmarks around the world to dim their lights for the event.
Lights went out in some 7,000 cities and towns from New York to New Zealand for Earth Hour, which aims to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for green projects this year.
“The thing about Earth Hour is that it reminds people that it needs to be a global response,” said Anna Rose, national Earth Hour manager for Australia, the country in which the event began in 2007.
“It’s quite beautiful when people turn off their lights in Earth Hour to know that they are joining with people in 154 countries.”
Australians were this year focusing on the Great Barrier Reef, the huge coral structure off Queensland which conservationists fear will be irreversibly damaged by climate change without urgent action.
The Earth Hour movement saw world landmarks including the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin switch off their lights for 60 minutes.
Earth Hour began in 2007 in Sydney, but the idea quickly spread around the world. Hundreds of millions of people are estimated to have turned their lights off for the event last year.
The event is a symbolic action rather than one to reduce carbon pollution, but it has drawn criticism, including from Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg. He argues it does little for the real problem of global warming and diverts resources from other problems.
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