[Pil-pc-oceania] [Fwd from Kerry Dawborn: Earth Hour 2008 - please be part of a simple global action]

Tue Mar 25 10:49:48 EST 2008

Hi Friends,

I'm writing this with the message below, to remind you about Earth Hour, 
which is happening this Saturday March 29th - an opportunity for all of 
us to participate in reducing our emissions, and show that it really is 
possible and do-able to take meaningful action on Global Warming. By 
turning off our lights en masse for an hour, sure, we'll stop producing 
harmful emissions from electricity during that time, which is valuable, 
but perhaps even more importantly, if enough of us do it this is a way 
we can send a message to governments, corporations, and each other, that 
THIS MATTERS TO US! That we WANT TO SEE AND WILL SUPPORT and participate 
in meaningful action to curb global warming.
It has been suggested to me that there is a level of hypocrisy in making 
a big deal about turning off lights for an hour, while we allow damaging 
consumerism-driven economic growth to continue unabated - while we 
continue to routinely buy food and other products produced and 
transported over long distances by oil-hungry and polluting technologies 
and engage in other unsustainable ways of living - and there is truth in 
this I think. However, */we must begin somewhere,/* and perhaps if we 
take Earth Hour seriously, and encourage others to do so, and talk about 
our participation and why it is important to us with others, we can show 
that even though we might not have figured out how to make the big 
changes that may be necessary, we are looking for leadership and support 
on this from our government and the wider community, and are ready to 
begin moving towards a sustainable, equitable future. Furthermore, I for 
one would like to acknowledge that it isn't necessarily easy for any one 
individual to make big changes. We are all trying to get by within 
economic, transportation and other systems and ways of thinking that 
were designed for a time of plentiful oil and little awareness or 
concern for climate change and other pollution issues. We continue to be 
constrained by those systems, because they change slowly and often 
reluctantly, yet still they are powerful in our lives. So for those of 
us who feel stuck in a way of living that we know is unsustainable yet 
we cannot yet get our heads around how to make change, Earth Hour is a 
simple start, and a way to send a message asking for assistance and 
leadership.

So, please consider turning off your lights for an hour at 8pm this 
Saturday evening, and encouraging and supporting your friends and loved 
ones, your work mates, your work places (wouldn't it be amazing if all 
melbourne's neon lights went off for an hour!!!!!), to do the same. 
Imagine the powerful message a pure, dark night sky over your region, 
your city, your town, your suburb, your street, could send!

Best wishes to you all,

Kerry Dawborn
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