World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com)

An anonymous reader quotes the AFP: Earth Hour, which started in Australia in 2007, is being observed by millions of supporters in 187 countries, who are turning off their lights at 8.30pm local time in what organisers describe as the world's "largest grassroots movement for climate change"... In Paris, the Eiffel Tower plunged into darkness as President Emmanuel Macron urged people to join in and "show you are willing to join the fight for nature". "The time for denial is long past. We are losing not only our battle against climate change, but also our battle against the collapse of biodiversity," he said on Twitter. Moscow's Red Square also fell dark and the Russian section of the International Space Station dipped its lights, the Ria Novisti news agency said... UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the event "comes at a time of huge pressure on people and planet alike. Resources and ecosystems across the world are under assault. Earth hour is an opportunity to show our resolve to change."
Other landmarks "going dark" include the Empire State Building in New York and the Sydney Opera House, as well as the harbour skylines of Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Re:Complete idiocy.

[Charcharodon]

So the result was we sent in armed police and ran all the hippies off. Unfortunately for the local wildlife they polluted the whole area with human waste (shit and piss), and left literally tons of plastic garbage laying about. Oh and delayed construction enough that trains carrying said oil, that could have been sent through the pipeline instead, derailed not once, not twice, but twelve times dumping a halve a million gallons of crude oil on the ground.

Good job hippies. You did the exact opposite of what you hoped to accomplish.