I am just one person…

It is a telling sentence. “I am just one person. What can I do about global warming?”

But Earth hour prompts each one of us to take action. The annual event hosted by WWF on the last Saturday of March now touches nearly 2000 cities. Though initially tried in Thailand it was Sydney in 2007 where 2.2 million households decided to participate in Earth Hour.

The simple idea is to turn off lights for one hour at 8.30 local time on the last Saturday of March. In 2009 it would be March 28. From ordinary households to the royal house in Denmark to the Pyramids in Egypt, lights would go out for one hour. Even Google is joining the event by promising to turn its home page dark that day.

Unfortunately the website of Earth Hour does not indicate that my city Chandigarh is joining in. Meanwhile at Facebook the profile pictures of lots of people including mine are changing indicating that we are joining Earth Hour.