Tonight, at 8:30PM, we turned off all the lights in the house as participation to Earth Hour 2010. For 1 full hour, the house was dark save for a couple of candles, we had our dinner by candle light.
I have heard and read a lot of dissenting opinions about Earth Hour, how it doesn't really do anything and all that. I noted, as we turned off our own lights, some of our neighbors did not, the street lamps we not turned off, and most of the other appliances in our own house was still running as well - refrigerators, air conditions, laptops and whatever else. So why the heck did we still do it?
To me it is simple...