It's a nice symbolic gesture, it does put energy conservation into people's thoughts that day. Right there, however, is where I believe it ends. The way I see it, unless you're already careful about conserving energy, earth hour isn't going to matter to you one way or another. The vast majority of people will probably turn their TVs off, turn the lights off, and wait for an hour. Then once it's over, the TV will be back on, all the lights in the house on, they'll probably start up the washing machine and fire up the laptop so they have something to amuse themselves with during the commercial breaks. Yeah it's a nice gesture, but I high doubt it really makes any difference whatsoever to the majority of people's daily habits.
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