Earth Hour actually allowed me to divide my neighbourhood into two groups. One was 'People who care about Earth' and the other was 'People who couldn't even be bothered to lift their finger to turn off the light switches'.
Truth to be told, my neighbourhood fell in the latter. And I sure am disappointed.
I actually had a picture in mind.
Maybe it was too much, but I thought that it would be cool if one's neighbourhood could have the existance of an exhilarating yet peaceful ambience.
But boy, was my neighbourhood far from the word 'Darkness'! Neighbours of mine were seen to have all their lights switched on, some even playing DVDs, computer games and even karaoke.
Okay, so maybe my neighbours don't bother about Earth Hour. Let's check out the neighbourhood.
The thought of seeing the HDB flats with their lights out was soon replaced by the actual sight that there were less than 10 flats with their lights switched off! And I bet that out of these 10 flats, maybe 7 or 8 of them had families that weren't at home, so the lights were switched off.
If I were an organisation that was promoting Earth Hour, I would have switched off all the corridor lights (and allow burglars to carry out their heist), put all the channels on TV on test screen.
Or better yet, make them 'suffer' like how we students did back in school, during Total Defence Day. The water supply was switched off (can you imagine how unhygienic it was with no water to wash up after using the toilet? Oh, and I remember that there was this one time in my Primary School, this kid took a big dump in the toilet and it couldn't be flushed down! The horror...), so were the fans and lights.
It's actually not torturous, for the fact that it is only for an hour.
It can't be helped because if it is a matter which is not compulsory, almost (Read: ALMOST) everyone would not even be bothered about it.
And to those numbskulls who weren't bothered about Earth Hour, see what Global Warming is doing to the polar bears!
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"Potentially fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies."
"The primary observation is that as the sea ice shrinks away, so are the polar bears -- they're not growing as big as they used to."
"The melting ice means not only shorter hunting seasons, but it also means the bears, who number some 20,000 to 25,000 worldwide, have to cross greater distances to reach their icy hunting grounds.
This has led to a deterioration of the bears' health, impacting their reproductive capacities and the cubs' chances of survival, experts warned."
" "We knew of polar bears killing and eating other polar bears," Steven Amstrup, a research wildlife biologist with the US Geological Survey, told AFP.
"But the difference was that this time the polar bears were clearly deliberately hunting other bears, attacking for example females in their denning area" in northern Alaska, he said.
"We assume that it was linked to nutritional stress."
Faced with the growing uncertainty concerning the ice, pregnant polar bears are increasingly denning on land, researchers have noticed."
I think that if no fast actions are taken to save these Polar Bears, they are bound to be the next Do Do Birds.
Credits:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090319/tts-arctic-climate-warming-animal-c1b2fc3.html
Pictures from Google.
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