KUCHING: Everybody, lights off this March 26!
In conjunction with the upcoming Earth Hour event on March 26, Padawan Municipal Council (PMC) chairman Lo Khere Chiang is appealing to the local community to switch off their lights.
This is the first time PMC is participating in the Earth Hour event.
“The goal is to help raise awareness around the globe of our energy use, consumption, impact and long-lasting effects on the environment. Earth Hour is a movement to help our future and encourage urgent change around the world,” he said in a statement yesterday (Mar 24).
He said the consumption or wastage of electricity was contributing to the earth’s rise in temperature.
The Batu Kitang assemblyman also pointed out the importance of the Earth Hour because climate change and global warming posed an extreme challenge as wildlife and plants faced extinction.
“This includes us, so we need to do our bit to protect the planet!
“You can take part and make an impact wherever you are in the world. People’s circumstances are different all around that world, but wherever you are, you can make an impact,” he said.
He called upon the community to take part in activities that contributed to the raising of awareness such as turning off lights during Earth Hour, candlelight dinner, joining the Earth Hour video stream, film night, indoor scavenger hunt, and Earth Hour word search and poster colouring.
Earth Hour is an annual event first introduced in 2007 in Sydney Australia, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as a form of encouragement to individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off all non-essential lights for an hour between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm.
