I think awareness of the global warming issue is already enough and all we need now is a radical and concrete action.

So what’s next after the Earth Hour campaign, another awareness campaign? We can’t solve this crisis by just giving awareness. We need an action that will have a sure and big impact to solve this problem.

Earth Hour was spearheaded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Sydney last year to raise public awareness on conserving energy “to reduce” greenhouse gas emission. But do you think that members of the WWF are really doing what they want other people to do to reduce green house gas emissions? Do they reduce their electricity consumption up to the energy consumption level of an ordinary third world country citizen? Are they already not using their cars to reduce the total emissions of cars in the world? Do they plan to have a reduced family size so that their future children’s contribution to global warming will be lower? I don’t think they will all do that.

For me sustained reduction of the demand for energy through population control and change of lifestyle, and not through energy conservation alone can help resolve this problem.

Also, take note that power plants are not the only contributors of green house gases emissions to the atmosphere, how about cars, the food and waste of all the people and animals on earth, the clearing of trees for human habitat, and many other human related activities? Since it’s the human needs and activities that greatly contribute to global warming, it’s the human population and amount of its needs that must be controlled to solve this problem. Thus, we should spend our energy on these activities with direct impact to the problem, and not on just wasting to an endless awareness campaigns