An Hour for Earth

We, along with the rest of the world, have to turn off all the lights and every appliance that uses electricity on March 25 with our own hands. Because we have to save our earth which is in great danger! During this time we have to make sure that every light or other equipment that uses electricity remains switched off. Is our Earth gonna be destroyed!

Amm 😬 Certainly not, because by following this precautionary measure we can prevent that situation. 

Yes of course, I am talking about Earth Hour 🌎. 

It is one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment. It was started by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 2007 in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 . It is held every last Saturday of March for an hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm in your local time zone and engages millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories. 

It sees the world switching off its lights to show support for the planet. The movement is an open-source platform and welcomes everyone, anywhere to take part in the movement and help protect the planet.

It is all about spreading awareness of environmental issues in our global and local communities. It is an annual global event organized by WWF (World Wild Fund for Nature) encouraging individuals, communities, corporates, and households to turn off their lights to show support for the fight against climate change and commitment towards a better planet. 

Every year on the last Saturday of the month of March from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., millions across the world choose to turn off their lights for one hour to celebrate their commitment to the planet.

Earth Hour has also progressed to more than just championing the environment but also covers unity among all the people of the world, harnessing the power of the people and advocating for legislative changes that have a positive impact on the environment. It also aims to spark global conversations on protecting nature, as well as ensuring our health, prosperity, health and survival. All these are challenges affecting the world that need to be addressed immediately, without introducing politics.

As the years went on, its popularity grew and Earth Hour became a global phenomenon. Because of the overwhelming success of Earth Hour, WWF has now become a worldwide sponsor and is moving to increase more awareness through crowdfunding initiatives. Crowdfunding invites environmentally aware individuals to donate in order to raise funds to do other environmental work across the planet. Some of these initiatives include:

Uganda 🇺🇬 : The planting of half a million trees in order to protest the deforestation of ecosystems across the globe.

Russia 🇷🇺 : Pushing a bill through congress with over 120,000 signatures, which focuses in on protecting the country’s seas from oil pollution.

Argentina 🇦🇷 : 3.4 million hectares of sea is being protected, raising the percentage of sea protection from 1 percent to 4 percent – a huge leap for the country.

These initiatives and many more have become the first step for advocates who are actively involved in Earth Hour.

It has become an important staple of environmental awareness and consciousness. Reducing your carbon footprint, both in your personal life and in the workplace, is essential in order to create a robust and environmentally safe world. Preserving the natural heritage of our planet is what Earth Hour is all about.

By becoming environmentally conscious through Earth Hour, many companies and individuals have made incredible changes to their lifestyles in order to support the need for change. Because we waste a lot of fuel, electricity and produce a lot of waste, sometimes the message for a cleaner world falls upon deaf ears. However, through its years of progression, it has helped millions across the world become environmentally conscious and produced noticeable change.

It is an opportunity for millions of people all around the world to take part in Earth hour and show their support for climate change. By switching off your lights for one hour, you can make a substantial difference in energy consumption and can help reduce the effect of global warming on this planet.

It is an opportunity for people around the world to show their gesture towards global warming and climate change that have started showing significant effects on our environment. By reducing your energy consumption and making small changes in your daily lives, you can make a huge change in the effects of global warming.

The consumption of fossil fuels at a rapid pace in the last few decades has taken a toll on the environment. Global warming, climate change, deforestation, landfills, air, water and soil pollution, are some of the problems from which our environment is suffering.

We have become so addicted to electricity that we simply cannot sit alone in the dark. As such, over 70,000 Earth Hour events were checked into digital maps in 2015. Regardless of whether you live alone, with friends or family, or join a community event, Earth Hour is a reminder that we need to come together to solve climate change. Earth Hour helps us see what our lives can become if we neglect mother nature. As such, it has inspired other movements all over the world aimed at protecting nature and the environment in general. For instance, as a direct result of Earth Hour, Uganda planted over half-a-million trees against 6,000 hectares of deforestation. In Argentina, 3.4 million hectares of the sea are now protected.

We rely on natural systems, which are very vital for our future. Unfortunately, the global loss of nature over the last half-century is unprecedented needs urgent global attention. Nature provides us with clean air, water, food, and services worth trillion every year. Earth Hour is important as it allows us to work towards achieving better resources from nature, as well as envisioning what our lives will be if we do not fight for the planet.

These small changes in the Earth Hour movement have been recorded to be working. In 2013 during Earth Hour, Toronto recorded a 205-megawatt reduction, equivalent to 92,000 homes off the grid. The same in Bangkok recorded a 1,699-megawatt reduction, eliminating roughly 1,073 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, the same we can do in Pakistan as well! 

It is all about taking steps towards change. Our climate is changing every single day, and it’s becoming harder and harder to forget that many of our daily choices have a dramatic effect on the world we live in. By staying constantly aware of what’s going on with the environment, the community at Earth Hour has made several different projects in all sixty countries to help promote a healthy environment year-round. By reducing your carbon footprint and become involved in organizations like Earth Hour, you can promote active change within the environment for generations to come. Earth Hour is a great initiative and will run for years on.