Earth Hour was earlier today, and according to Project Syndicate- earth hour is a colossal waste of time. Honestly, any reduction power is good, it can’t be harming the earth the shut off parts of the world at different time can it? 1.3 Billion already live without light and electricity when the sun goes down, however on march 23rd another 1 billion people of the world will participate in earth hour. (Why can’t it be earth day? Or have 1 day per month?) Apparently its quite a hoax according to P.S. Stating that its mainly so people can feel good about doing something active to save the world. “Earth Hour demonstrates one’s desire to “do something” about global warming. But the reality is that Earth Hour teaches all the wrong lessens, and it actually increases CO₂ emissions. Its vain symbolism reveals exactly what is wrong with today’s feel-good environmentalism.”

“Hypothetically, switching off the lights for an hour would cut CO₂ emissions from power plants around the world. But, even if everyone in the entire world cut all residential lighting, and this translated entirely into CO₂ reduction, it would be the equivalent of China pausing its CO₂ emissions for less than four minutes. In fact, Earth Hour will cause emissions to increase.Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO₂ emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterward.”

I found this quite shocking… Furthermore, P.S states that Earth Hour and their organizers teaches us to think that reducing CO2 emissions is easy and simple, and that Earth Hour is relatively pointless for the 60 mins it is and that all it is doing is making it harder to see in the dark…