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Earth Hour is nothing more than a PR exercise and opportunity for those governments and corporations to make themselves look good and draw attention away from what really needs to be done to combat the problems we face. Also doesn't hurt too much to make the great unwashed feel like they're doing something "constructive". As the Roman emperors did many a time, feed the plebs bread and give them games to distract them and they won't see that tsunami of potential disaster coming right at them. For all its initial good intentions, it's nothing more than a feel good exercise that hasn't and won't do a thing to alleviate anything. That will only come when people stop contemplating their navels and start thinking more about their communities and their futures instead of themselves and their reality TV and keeping up with the Jones's.
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