Saturday, March 28, 2009
Hello. The topic for today is:
Earth Hour is a global event organised by the World Wildlife Fund [WWF], and it is held annually on the last Sunday of March. It was started in 2007 in Sydney, and it has become a world wide thing ever since.
This year, Earth Hour happened today, from 8.30pm-9.30pm. Basically, you have to turn off all non-essential lights, like your balcony light or the lamp at your study table. My family, and I'm sure we're not the only ones, decided to up the ante, and we turned off the whole damn power supply.
So we were sitting down in total darkness, with the only light sources being two lighted candles, and the moon. My brother was over excited as usual, my father decided to take a nap, my mother was talking to my sister, and I was lying on my bed talking on the phone to Kim, who also happened to be in total darkness.
I was just wondering, why are we doing this? The Earth will eventually get screwed, that is inevitable, but do we not realise that we will all be gone by the time that happens? Yes, you can tell me that our future generations will be affected, but then I will ask you to repeat your sentence.
"our future generations" There. Our future generation. Not us. I know it's selfish to think that way, but do you think the people of the future will be grateful for what we did for them? I seriously doubt it.
You can argue that my own children might also suffer if we didn't save the Earth now. Maybe. But I can't really be bothered. I know that I will definitely have a lot of children. I just won't know who they are. So it isn't really a problem.
But then I realised. We aren't doing this for the bastards of the future. We aren't even doing this for ourselves.
We are doing this for the Earth.
Earth has supported us and our ancestors for millions of years, and we haven't really done much to return the favour.
Imagine what would happen if the oxygen content of the Earth increased or decreased, even slightly. Or if they ozone layer continued to thin, and the intensity of the sunlight falling onto our skin increased.
Humans may think that we are at the top of the food chain, but in reality, we are one of the most fragile creatures around. Little changes like that would probably kill us, while cockroaches and other insects would still survive.
Even if the Earth starts to fail, and another planet is found to be suitable to sustain life, will we really feel happy to move to that planet? It wouldn't be as colourful as the Earth. The air would feel different. Some animals might not be able to survive on that planet.
What I'm trying to say is, nothing can replace Earth, so we must do our best to save her. After all, we can never repay what Earth has done for us, so the least we could do is extend her life, even if it is only be a little.
Still, I don't think once a year is good enough. Earth Hour is meant to be an awareness campaign, not an attempt to save energy. While we cannot promise that we will save energy all the time, we all have to try at the very least.
Time to start writing on both sides of a piece of paper before throwing it away, and to stop using this computer too much.
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Wow, I sounded like such a tree hugger back there. I'm not, but I seriously do feel that we need to help save the Earth. We all are citizens of this planet, so everyone has a part to play. I wasn't too keen on participating in Earth Hour, but my family was, so I didn't really have a choice.
I didn't really do much for the rest of the day. Went out for a while. Played Ninja Blade. Played DotA. All the usual stuff. I love the exotic fruit!! I wasn't used to the taste at first, but I'm really starting to like it!! Much better than I expected :D
Some photos I took during Earth Hour:
Hey, don't candles pollute the air too?
What the hell is this? Well, I did say that I was in total darkness.
Ok, I'm done for today. Thanks for reading. [KOAS KW!!] Ending off, see you tomorrow.
posted @ 11:15 PM
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