[img]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5354544-1x1-940x940.jpg[/img]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VG8e31WwsU#t=64[/media]
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Lights went off in thousands of cities and towns across the world for the annual Earth Hour campaign, which is aiming to raise money via the internet for local environmental projects.
Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge were among the first landmarks around the world to dim their lights for 60 minutes during Saturday's event, organised by conservation group WWF.
An estimated 7,000 cities and towns from New Zealand to New York were taking part.
Hong Kong's stunning waterfront skyline was unrecognisable on Saturday evening, with the city's tallest skyscraper, the International Commerce Centre, stripped of the vast light show usually wrapped around its 118 stories.
Neon switch off
Blazing neon signs advertising some of the world's largest brands were shut off, leaving the view of the heavily vertical southern Chinese city peppered only with tiny lights from buildings' interiors.
Earth Hour partnered with payments giant PayPal to allow donors to contribute to specific projects from Russia and India to Canada and Indonesia, using Asian fundraising site Crowdonomic.
Earth Hour chief executive Andy Ridley said before the lights went off in Singapore that the event had moved beyond symbolism to concrete action.
"If you want to get real social change you need to have symbolism," he told the AFP news agency. "We are seeing some really big outcomes."
Projects under the "Earth Hour Blue" crowdfunding scheme - which aim to raise more than $650,000 in total - include a turtle centre in Italy and funding for forest rangers in Indonesia.
The event is being marked in more than 150 countries, organisers said, estimating that thousands of cities and towns would have taken part by the time the ceremonies began in Singapore.[/quote]
[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/03/millions-switch-off-earth-hour-2014329135717884205.html[/url]
Is it me or did the Sydney Opera House not change at all, despite what the article says?
Wait I don't see a difference in any of the pictures
[QUOTE=Kaios;44392867]Wait I don't see a difference in any of the pictures[/QUOTE]
The bridge lights go out, but not the opera house.
[QUOTE=Kaios;44392867]Wait I don't see a difference in any of the pictures[/QUOTE]
Look at the bridge to the right.
Or you could just keep lights off unless you need them.
And so we get less sleep now.
My sister is going to be angsty tommorow, damn it.
I like how there's a comparison picture in the OP and it's really hard to make out the difference
It's like those "spot the differences" things in your weekly Donald Duck magazine
I really wish they could reduce the number of lights in a city, there's some people who lived in a city their whole lives and probably never seen a star due to the light pollution.
[QUOTE=GammaFive;44392954]I really wish they could reduce the number of lights in a city, there's some people who lived in a city their whole lives and probably never seen a star due to the light pollution.[/QUOTE]
Uhm.. there's no way you'd escape of light pollution in a city enough for stars to show up unless the whole city is without lights. Good luck with that.
Maybe next year.
[QUOTE=Swineflu;44393081]Uhm.. there's no way you'd escape of light pollution in a city enough for stars to show up unless the whole city is without lights. Good luck with that.[/QUOTE]
It's not impossible but it wouldn't be feasible or probably even desirable. Not within the next 3-4 lifetimes.
It's obviously not going to happen because people like their headquarters to be the brightest pillar in the city.
Edit:
Ban windows. :v:
We'll never be able to top North Korea.
Earth Hour is so ridiculous, it does more damage than good.
I have never participated in Earth Hour and I will continue to do so.
This just in: Aircraft crashes at airports all over the world.
[QUOTE=wewt!;44393250]Earth Hour is so ridiculous, it does more damage than good.[/QUOTE]
How does it exactly? I've never bothered to participate but just curious.
My parents always turn on every light in the house during earth hour.
[QUOTE=GammaFive;44392954]there's some people who lived in a city their whole lives and probably never seen a star due to the light pollution.[/QUOTE]
they can also just look up during daylight and see a star too
Earth hour is like diet coke, it seems less like it does some good but it really doesn't
[QUOTE=Redswandir;44393502]they can also just look up during daylight and see a star too[/QUOTE]You're a genius! We won't need lights because everyone will go blind as they stare at the sun!
[QUOTE=nVidia;44393486]How does it exactly? I've never bothered to participate but just curious.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, it causes loss of production or something like that. I could be completely wrong tho
For a comparison:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ahZDNtS.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=wewt!;44393250]Earth Hour is so ridiculous, it does more damage than good.[/QUOTE]
Not being funny, just wondering why?
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;44393538]For a comparison:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ahZDNtS.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
so the opera house actually turned some lights on for earth hour, it seems
[QUOTE=zerothefallen;44393519]IIRC, it causes loss of production or something like that. I could be completely wrong tho[/QUOTE]
Ooooooh nooo, GDP drops for like an hour. Whatever will we do.
Its not likely we totally can continue to employ an economic based on infinite resources on a finite resourced planet.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;44393538]For a comparison:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ahZDNtS.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Bridge goes off, lights come on.
So dumb.
[QUOTE=joost1120;44393459]This just in: Aircraft crashes at airports all over the world.[/QUOTE]
No one is going to turn off the lights and risk the safety of thousands at an airport for Earth Hour.
Safety first.
[QUOTE=wewt!;44393250]Earth Hour is so ridiculous, it does more damage than good.[/QUOTE]
How so?
I'm not familiar with how power stations work, but I sort of imagine them outputting a base amount of energy into the grid that's going to be put out regardless (again, correct me if i'm wrong) and excess is either stored or dissipates. Would turning off lights really affect that? Wouldn't it either have almost no effect on electricity generation (which would be the thing causing any sort of pollution) or possibly even be wasteful depending on the grid architecture?
I guess it's just a symbolic sort of thing anyways. The message is kind of muddled though, romanticizing a lack of electricity is kind of luddite-ish.
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