Earth hour komt tussen Schotland en Amsterdam?

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Als vanavond het licht ergens tussen 20:00 - 23:00 uur uitgaat in de Arena
(Ajax stadion) krijgen we een oorlog tussen Amsterdam en Schotland?

De Schotten staan er om bekend dat ze zich niets van klimaat aantrekken.
Als je sinds gisteren, waar dan ook in Amsterdam, rondloopt kun je dat met
eigen ogen aanschouwen.

De killing kilts! Zeker met dit weer ;)

Groet / Cees

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-28-voa8.cfm
Sydney Ready for Big Switch-Off as Earth Hour Goes Global
By Phil Mercer - Sydney - 28 March 2000
Sydney, the home of Earth Hour, is preparing to celebrate the global
environmental movement's second anniversary. In 2007, more than two
million Australians took part in the symbolic event to draw attention to
climate change. Organizers say more than 3,400 towns and cities in 88
countries will participate in this year's Earth Hour.

Scotland's Edinburgh Castle, the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing and the
pyramids in Egypt will join the Sydney Opera House in dimming their lights
as part of Earth Hour.

The global event has been endorsed by the Secretary-General of the United
Nations. Ban Ki-moon has said it was the biggest climate change
demonstration ever attempted. Mr. Ban urged people everywhere to pressure
their governments to take decisive action to cut carbon pollution.

Organizers are hoping that up to a billion people from small villages in
Namibia to sprawling cities in Asia will participate in an international
effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which many scientists blame for a
warming climate.

One of the architects of Earth Hour, Andy Ridley from the conservation
group World Wildlife Fund (WWF), says the current financial meltdown
should not be used as an excuse to delay environmental reforms.

"The global economic crisis has proved that we are a global community, so
when America goes bad, we all go bad and climate change is going to be on
a scale that is way, way beyond our global economic crisis at the moment
and we need to put in place the measures to a) slow that down and ideally
halt it, b) be ready for economies that will have to change. So, the
longer we procrastinate the more we pay the penalty so we need to move
quickly," he said.

Earth Hour was started by environmentalists in Sydney in 2007. It
encourages households, businesses and governments to switch off all
non-essential lights for 60 minutes in a show of unified concern for the
health and future of the planet.

In two years, the event has become a large global movement and its aim is
to create an enormous wave of public pressure that will influence
delegates at a meeting in Copenhagen later this year, which hopes to
establish a new U.N. climate treaty.

However, critics of Earth Hour have insisted it is simply a symbolic
gesture that will not affect significant environmental change.

The event will officially begin on the international dateline in the
remote Chatham Islands south-east of New Zealand and will conclude in
Hawaii.

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