29th March 2009, 8:30 - 9:30 pm is Earth Hour. Sydney started to switch off all its light on 31st March 2007; and what started from one city has spread all over the world.
My teenage daughter is very keen on it and has been talking about it for the past one week. My slightly younger son is totally unconcerned.
We spent the hour in a local mall, not being able to live without modern amenities and electricity. We bought a few books and came home about a quarter of an hour early. Out of the twenty or so houses in the vicinity of our house, only a handful turned off their lights. I noticed that it was the houses with teenage girls that participated. Perhaps it was a co-incident; perhaps I should not read too much into this; but somehow I couldn't stop to wonder, is it being boys not to be concerned?
After what this generation has done in wrecking the environment and the earth, it is good to know that the next generation is concerned. Kind of remind me what the last few generations have gone through:
fifties - the era of tv and big band music
sixties - the era of freedom
seventies - hedonism?
eighties - money and finances
nineties - chaos and lawlessness?
the new millennium - hopefully one that returns to caring for what we have so wantonly squandered.
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