The problem is, it gives people a false sense of accomplishment. Turning your lights off for one hour and you've already done your part for the environment. There's just something so wrong about it.
And here, the major proponents are the malls and the media stations. It's like an oil company sponsoring environmental conservation. It's a smokescreen. It's just PR to show that the company 'cares' about the environment they're raping by the minute.
But better something like that than nothing at all.
But it shouldn't end there. People should be conscious how their actions or inactions affect this planet.
What is Earth hour compared to being conscious of turning off your lights and appliances when you don't need it? Who amongst us take the time to do composting of our household waste? Who bothers to recycle? Who bothers to segregate? Who bothers to inconvenience themselves to take the public transportation once in a while and leave their cars at home?
Earth hour's a good concept, but don't buy into the propaganda that it's enough. Don't buy into the propaganda that it absolves the companies who organizes it from the ravages they do daily to the environment.
