A dark monolith in St. Petersburg, Russia, during Earth Hour.
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit, lockdowns began, highways cleared, airports went quiet, and the perpetual tromping of human beings stopped. The Earth discovered. Among other things, carbon emissions dropped, air quality enhanced, and, in Venice’s no-longer-so-murky canals, jellyfish could be seen moving along.
More than a single person questioned whether the abrupt shift might lead mankind to rethink how it survives on the planet Expense Gates, for one, said that “ if we learn the lessons of COVID-19, we can approach environment change more informed about the effects of inaction.”
The World Wildlife Fund has zeroed in on that concept as part of its yearly Earth Hour observance, in which it asks people to turn off their lights for an hour in the evening to draw attention to the environment crisis and other ecological problems.
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Earth Hour 2021’s non-light-show happened March 27 from 8: 30 to 9: 30 p.m. local time, and this year likewise boasted a component that could stretch well beyond the hour. The first-ever Earth Hour Virtual Spotlight advised individuals to get hectic “taking control of the social media feeds of millions around the world and putting the spotlight on our world, the issues we deal with, and our place within it all.”
And so individuals did overnight, sharing social networks posts of dark cityscapes, moonlit landscapes and spaces lit only by candles.
The World Wildlife Fund in the UK also offered up some ideas of how we can utilize this #EarthHour moment as a first step towards higher planetary awareness.
Thank you to everybody who took part in #EarthHour this year. You, in addition to millions worldwide came together for our planet.
It does not stop there. Here are some ideas of what you can do next. https://t.co/y7LGtkRPQT
— WWF UK (@wwf_uk) March 28, 2021
Participants are meant to do that by sharing a video in which the Earth Hour team uses the pandemic as a springboard into a conversation of conservation and sustainability. Human advancement on animal environments is “requiring wildlife into closer contact with each other, our livestock and people,” the video states, “and all this makes it simpler for illness to spread out between animals and to us.” And “the threat of future pandemics will only increase unless we fix our damaged relationship with nature.”
The pandemic, however, “has actually shown us that we have it within us to make a modification,” the video includes, indicating things like working from house. “We have actually seen that we can adjust to new methods of working. Let’s now check out new lifestyles that put individuals and world initially.”
You can take a look at the video below, you can learn more about the Earth Hour Virtual Spotlight on the Earth Hour site, and if 8: 30 p.m. on March 27 hasn’t yet come and gone in your neck of the woods, you can join the Earth Hour observance by turning off your lights for 60 minutes.
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