Last Saturday March 25 had a very special hour: from 20.30:21.30 to XNUMX:XNUMX in each country the lights were turned off in order to raise awareness about climate change. It was Earth Hour, about 60 minutes which should always be, every day, as we are reaching a point where we are running out of space while polluting it.
But we are not going to talk about sad things, but about the wonderful photographs that he left us on March 25, 2017. This is how the world looked that day.
Wat Arun Temple in Bangkok. Image - Ambito.com
Almost 7000 cities from more than 150 countries participated in »Earth Hour», an event that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has organized for 10 years. The event itself is simple: it consists of turning off the light for hours, but when millions of people do exactly that, the result can be spectacular. As it has been.
Brazil, Bangkok, Madrid, Bilbao, and many others have joined this great event that promises to be historic. This time, and as usual, hundreds of emblematic buildings have been added to the list of those that were darkened for an hour, such as the Moscow Kremlin. Also, if you want to know more about the initiative, you can check out what the initiative is all about. Earth Hour this link.
Sydney (Australia). Image - David Gray
The first to celebrate it were the Australians, who they shut down the Harbor Bridge and Sydney Opera House, the city where this initiative was launched in 2007. At that time, it involved around 2000 businesses and 2,2 million people, but the following year, 50 million participants from 35 countries participated. If you're interested in learning more about the long-term climate impact, you can read about how the temperature could increase by 2 to 5 degrees by the end of the century this link.
And you, did you turn off the light?
