Earth Hour Day- Do we know about it; much less its importance?

Many of us,including myself, may not be knowing that last Saturday of the month of March every year is to be observed as Earth Hour Day the world over; courtesy World Wildlife Fund(WWF).

Knowledge of this "Day" to me came through my daughter who is in the habit of testing my knowledge and awareness through her competitive exams related accumulated knowledge and newly acquired information.The testing goes on her part despite my confession of my drooping level of awareness.

          It is WWF that initiated in the year 2007 a campaign of awareness regarding climate change about which we the supposedly intelligent and brilliant generation feel good to talk only doing precious little for it to improve. 

This lapse is perhaps born out of impression that such concerns for environment, global warming etc. etc should be of top leaders', academics' and environmentalists'; not common people's.

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Coming back to this Earth Hour Day; its theme this year is "shape our future".

But more important is, as of now, is to switch off all lights,bulbs,fans,air conditioners etc. at least for an hour between 8.30 pm.and 9.30 pm. Needless to say that emergency services are not to be disturbed in the name of this choice outage.

If we do it with a conscious mind and with an attitude of gratitude to our mother earth to let her breath without huff at least for an hour,it will be really a great service to her.

               Now I feel prompted to think what a beautiful thing it would have been had we decided to go for this choice outage at least once a day per week!

         Anyway;even on a yearly basis this small but collective endeavour of ours will not only save our future but posterity's too.

So let's do it without fail. At present it is 7.00 pm.

Good Luck.

                                 R.R.Prabhakar

                                  26.03.2022

                        (March-Last Saturday)