Cav's Place

It seems that it’s been ten years since I last wrote a post specifically for Earth Hour, and back then I was turning everything off during that hour, while last year I didn’t even actually observe it. But last year I’d say that I did something better, or at least made up for it, since I got back during Earth Hour after having planted trees that day. So the fact that this evening I’ll turn the lights and the monitor off during that hour and earlier today I attended a protest calling yet again for the part of this nearby park that is supposedly privately owned to be recovered and restored should also be quite enough.
Of course, as I was also saying ten years ago, the part about the lights is just a publicity stunt, and a way for many, including authorities, to claim that they’re doing something for the environment when more often than not the opposite is true and they’re actively fighting against those who demand real and lasting changes. And using electricity isn’t, in itself, a problem, the problem being how it is generated and used, so the goals should be switching to green energy and improving energy efficiency.
This makes the changes to the event’s goals and suggested actions quite a pleasant surprise, since the scope becomes broader, demanding efforts aimed towards the recovery of Nature, and so does the list of actions, which now largely focus on actually doing something with the aim of generating a positive impact instead of just “turning off”. The burden does seem to be left on the shoulders of regular individuals, without specific demands from authorities and companies, and the suggested actions include very little in the way of putting pressure on them even though few things of the necessary magnitude can happen without political decisions and an overhaul of the economic system, but it does remain an improvement. Now let’s see if more will follow…