Exactly 8.30pm on 28 March 2009, the Earth Hour program started worldwide. Sabah one of the state in Malaysia also participating in this program. I am staying in Kg. Babagon Penampang and also eager to participate in this awareness campaign by WWF Malaysia.
At 8.30pm, 95% of the houses in Kg. Babagon are in total darkness to show support Earth Hour campaign. I also did not expect that my fellow villagers aware about this campaign. It’s encouraging seeing people are aware and participates in this program. On the other hand, it was promoted in the newspaper as well as in the news.
This is merely an awareness campaign and I don’t think switching off light for one hour make a huge difference. But the education taken from this program is that we should using less fossil fuel or anything that can produce carbon dioxide. I saw in the television that if we continue to produce carbon dioxide, in the near future the world will be become hotter and this can cause problem to the weather pattern. That’s why we can see fire in Australia, melting iceberg, typhoon, flood, unusual rain pattern, unusual hot wheatear, long drought and increasing of sea water level.
I also want people to use less plastic bag in their daily life because this can cause damage to the environment. As we know, plastic take years to decompose. I also want to encourage Malaysian people to use paper bag whenever they go shopping of use basket when they go market.
We hope WWF and earth people continue to support such program in the future so that people are aware of the danger of global warming.
