Lsast year I posted my thoughts on Why Earth Hour is Silly. I haven’t changed my mind. I still think Earth Hour is a silly waste of time.
In communities across the world people will drive their cars to the town square, or wherever, and they will sing songs in the darkness for an hour. They they will drive home, turn on their televisions, and continue on with life as normal.
If you want to make a real change, try this: instead of sitting in the dark, turn on your lights, and go through your house and assemble everything you’ve got that you no longer use or need. Old clothes, electronics, dishes, whatever. Then take all of that stuff to the local Salvation Army, or Goodwill, or even the used clothing/sporting goods/whatever store. Not only will doing that reduce our use of landfills, but you will eliminate clutter in your house, help someone else, and save the earth by reducing future production of goods that will just get thrown out.
While you are at it, make a list of 20, or 100 things in your house that you can’t live without. Then, get rid of everything else. If we eliminated all of our clutter, we could live in smaller houses, buy less, and reduce the strain on the environment.
Are any of us actually willing to do that?
No.
Instead of making real change, it’s much easier to stand in the dark for an hour and say we did our part for Earth Day, until next year.
And that’s why I think Earth Hour is still silly.
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