“Earth Hour sends a hugely important message to the world: it shows that when enough individuals act, the compound impact is enormous. This power of aggregated action offers hope to people feeling helpless in the global challenge of climate change; and it encourages timid and complacent politicians to deliver effective climate change policies.
“Such a demonstration of people power around the world has never been more urgent given the weakness of domestic policies here and in almost all other countries and the failure of international negotiations to achieve even a framework for Kyoto’s successor.”
