Our earth has been very sick today. Since the Industrial Revolution happened in Great Britain and Europe, the industry revolutionize with throwing a big impact towards the people and the environment. People were so keen to make money at that time until the most powerful country like Soviet Union lost due to economic crisis. Country with great economic power controls everything like United State of America. They were making money till they forgot how much the industry creates huge environmental problem like ozone depletion to the earth. The first ozone hole detected on America during 1970's. Towards this year and on, a lot of environmental problem have been issued by the big country like China and Japan and the small country like Malaysia.
Kyoto protocol that have been adopted on 11 December 1997 was taken for granted by the big nation such as US. Until last year, when people had realize how much that they have been damaging the earth with nuclear war and carbon dioxide emission, everyone like to started of thinking green way. Now people are talking about green technology, biotechnology, sustainable source, sustainable energy. With the current advance technology today, of course people think it's getting easy to obtain. Actually it is not. With the economy today, a lot of things are getting expensive. People start to talk about sustainable energy, because people are depending a lot on the usage of petroleum and coal in their daily lives until the source is said to be getting lower. The fact is, sustainable energy are also difficult to obtain.
When people start thinking about having change in their way of life, it is not easy. Meanwhile, there are groups or organization that are willing to help and guide all human beings towards a better life. World Wild Life (WWF) is one of the organization that involve in these volunteering work to deliver this awareness among peoples over the world. One of their project is Earth Hour. Earth Hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Until this day, Earth Hour have been an event for all country to keep on the awareness for the new generation.
People may think that turning off the lights for one hour is just a waste but then, less is more. Now that the whole world had involve in this program, a lot of energy consumption can be reduce and warm the earth as it also keep on reminding people to save the environment. Now, few country have proposed that for this year 2011, except for 1 hour of turning off the lights, they want to extend the time and see what country can hold the record the longest. Anyway, they hope that this purpose of the event can reach the people. So join us this March 26, 2011 by turning off the lights to save the Earth. Save energy save the world.
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