Earth hour

Tomorrow night is the fourth anniversary of earth hour. Earth hour began in 2007 in Austrailia, during this voluntary event people of all different nationalities turn off their electrical appliences from 8:30 to 9:30 in an effort to save as much energy as possible. Each year the number of participants grows, the event now reaches out to over 120 contries worldwide.the York region district school board has now taken the "initiative" to acknowledge this event and turn off the lights in their schools. Now, let me paint you a pretty little picture of how this is going to work. The school board goes out and makes this whole big point about how it is Eco-friendly and how this will save so much energy. What most people are blinded by is the fact that earth hour occurs from 8:30 to 9:30, a very high traffic time for people to be watching tv and using the Internet. The school board on the other hand has their hour from 12:30 to 1:30, in other words the time that we as students go out for recess. Now I don't know about you but when I walk down a school hall during recess the halls are empty, classrooms are dark and the lights are off anyways. In my eyes this is just the board trying to make themselves look good by doing nothing at all and making a big deal out of a small thing. But who am I, maybe the guys who don't let you do anything are making a valiant effort here, maybe they are the environment's saviour; or maybe I'm right and they're the terminator sent from the future to destroy it...