Environment

London Tweeters let down at Earth Hour

by JessMedling | March 28, 2009 at 08:07 pm

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London Tweeters - are united in disappointment with lack of Earth Hour effort.

"Do better next time" seems to be the message all round to Londoners - but the thing about our global climate problems is: we need to be doing better now.

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JessMedling

at 20:31 on March 28th, 2009

Having written the above.... have since read public comments re: Earth Hour on BBC News online:

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=6281&edition=1&ttl=20090329052248

Question: is apathetic sentiment towards global warming one of "couldn't-care-less", or of resigned defeatism?

Switching off lights for an hour won't change the world, but the collective consciousness that Earth Hour is engendering will.

lefty_liberated

at 20:53 on March 28th, 2009

People were disappointed in Times Square, too.

JessMedling

at 20:59 on March 28th, 2009

Hi Lefty - yes, I saw that. On the other hand though, there are seemingly impressive pics of NYC skyline going quite dark, including Empire State Building.

Amy Judd

at 23:23 on March 28th, 2009

Yeah, some cities didn't do as well as others, London being one of them I think.

lefty_liberated

at 02:58 on March 29th, 2009

In Paris, apparently, they turned the eiffel tower on like 5 minutes later and people were speculating that it was because it's a hazard for planes. The director of the WWF was at the Eiffell Tower, though, and seemed visibly moved and had this to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8_TywmlbBg