Whether its individuals, communities, corporations or governments, all advocated to take part in this activity, thereby showing their support for the actions many people take to deal with the problems related to rapid climate change. As is known to all of us, an excessive amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere has been dramatically threatening human beings’ safe and comfortable existence on earth. In this case, only by changing people’s attitude toward carbon dioxide emission can we endeavor to alleviate the negative impact that it imposes on the whole world.

From my perspective, it is necessary and of crucial significance that every one of us tried our best to participate in this activity and make our own contribution to protecting our home, no matter how small or trivial our contribution seems to be. It seems to me that the result matters much less than people’s willingness to take actions to protect our earth and to change their attitude toward the severity of the outcome of the irresponsible behaviors of human beings. Many people may regard it unnecessary and even futile to close the lights for an hour at a certain time because the period of time is too short and moreover, the actions of only a minority of people will not bring about apparent changes. Yet, their opinion is seriously flawed in that they do not take into account the concept of individual responsibility and social consciousness. If every one of us can think comprehensively and dialectically before we take actions, then perhaps the earth would not have been seriously damaged today.

- Li Pei Zhao

“The more popular it is, the more attention people will pay to the environment in their daily lives. It is nothing short of a genius innovation to encourage people to protect their homes. Earth Hour is a form, but it is more than a form.

- Liang Yu Qi

Some people support that Earth Hour as a positive activity to urge everyone on earth to take action for the current dreadful situation; while others argue that people launch this activity just for show. My personal belief is that if we do it the right way, every human being will take on his or her own responsibility.

For the starters, it is this campaign that gives us a spiritual baptism which arouses our driven sense of obligation to give ourselves to protecting the environment, to protecting the earth and to protecting human beings. Imagine the countless people who turn off their electrical appliances to support this profound and meaningful campaign. Imagine cities that will be covered by tranquil moonlight, instead of dazzling neon light. Imagine… Earth Hour is nothing but an inspiring activity.

But due to people’s ignorance and innocence, a lot of us do not even know the Earth Hour, not to mention to cut off electrical appliances. However, this situation might be partly attributed to the weak propaganda strength. We have not attained enough media attention. Despite all the warm-hearted people’s effort, mainstream media in China just flicked it. In the city I live, Shanghai, for instance, although the municipal government cut off some of the landscape lamps, the only thing occurred to citizens, especially the tourists is that “oh, what a shame, I came to the Bund for those lamps, but they broke down for no reason.” Even if they show their consent to it, at the bottom of their heart, they sense that it is totally worthless. Without abundant propaganda, people is more likely to turn the cold shoulder on this campaign.

We must take action to wake up those people’s mind, to improve people’s inner quality, to expand our horizons. Earth Hour is just a stimulant for people to really penetrate our dilemma, thus uniting together to fight for the only planet we live on.

- Qing Chen