"Earth Hour", also known as "Turn off the lights for one hour", is an initiative launched by the World Wide Fund for Nature in 2007. It calls on individuals, communities, enterprises and governments to turn off their lights for one hour from 20: 30 to 2 1: 30 on the last Saturday of March every year, so as to stimulate people's sense of responsibility for protecting the earth, reflect on environmental issues such as climate change and show their concern for the world.
This is a global activity. After WWF was first advocated in Sydney in 2007, it swept the world at an alarming rate, and everyone came to participate in this activity.
The "Earth Hour" event was first held in Sydney, Australia on March 3, 2007, and attracted more than 2.2 million families and businesses in Sydney. Subsequently, the activity quickly swept the world at an alarming rate.
The positive role of "Earth Hour";
1962, Rachel Carson, an American biologist, wrote in her book Silent Spring, which was later called the first time that human beings paid attention to environmental issues, "We took great risks and tried our best to transform nature to meet our wishes", "But the fact is that nature is not easy to be shaped", and the long-term road of human development "seems flat and comfortable, but
Turning off the lights for an hour may be just a drop in the bucket for saving energy and reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases and other polluting gases caused by power generation. However, when the environmental awareness inspired by this is deeply rooted in people's hearts and transformed into ideas, when ideas are transformed into actions, and when actions become habits, the contribution to global environmental protection will never be limited to numbers.