Monday, March 30, 2009

City in Las Vegas darkens for Earth Hour on Saturday

According to the environmental activists, the “Earth Hour” in Las Vegas on Saturday was a huge success. Now the nations have a behest to deal with the climatic change.

According to the sayings of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), last Saturday hundreds of millions of people worldwide followed its call to turn-off lights for a full hour. From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Empire State building in New York, lit up that the piece of the globe went obscure on last Saturday inorder to focus the menace of drastic climatic change. Nearly 4,000 cities and 88 countries dimmed dispensable lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

World Wildlife Fund conducted an Australian event in 2007 which flourish 400 cities worldwide in last year. Ambassadors from 175 countries gathered on Sunday in Bonn for the latest round to craft a deal to control emissions of the heat-trapping gases, which is responsible for the massive climatic change. German boy and girl scouts on Sunday presented theYvo de Boer with a blue “ballot box” symbolically representing the world’s vote the night before to save the earth. A young girl said to Mr. Boer, that we will soon lose our future, if the world keeps polluting.

The young people as well as the World Wildlife Fund was thanked by the climatic chief for activating the massive show of support. Mr. Boer said that, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was actually the largest public demonstration that there has ever been on an issue like this. Finally, Andy Ridley the executive director of earth hour said that “Earth Hour has always been a positive campaign”

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