Earth Hour

Last night was earth hour. We turned off our lights for a little more than 60 minutes in response to Word Wildlife Foundation's call for everyone in the world to allocate one hour lights-off beginning from 8:30 to 9:30p.m, as per their time zone, as a sign of unity and awareness concerning the effect of global climate change.

This yearly practice promotes awareness and at the same time, actually contributing to ease off the consumption of electricity produced by power plants derived from burning fossil fuels which adds to the carbon dioxide emissions that confines the heat within the biosphere thereby warming the earth.

Earth is warm, the polar region glaciers and ice caps melt, the sea level rises and pretty soon it would paint a doomsday scenario. One hour may seem trivial especially since it is done once per year but so long as everybody is aware, it could go a long way as it targets one household at a time.

Those who took it to the extreme turned off not just the lights but all electricity consuming appliances. I would have done the same until I realized that my laptop is " ENERGYSTAR" compliant. Energystar is a worldwide standard which electronic devices are compelled to comply with and whose main objective is to reduce power consumption when in standby and improve energy efficiency when in use.

Technology has gone for the better to improve the energy consumption of electricity powered devices. It is good that something is being done now however disproportionate its contribution is relative to the actual need to just about even out the sorry state of the world's carbon emissions.

Just now I unplugged the power adaptor of my other notebook I am not using.
I guess this is what earth hour intends to accomplish.