Earth Hour in India - Does it make any sense?

Well Earth Hour makes very much sense to developed countries and mainly the USA and Europe as a whole where power cuts are rarity. Their lights are ON all the time and they generate a whole lot of heat every minute.

consider India, a Country where some villages get electricity supplied only for 4 hours in a day (1 hour in the morning, 1 at the noon, 1 at evening, 1 at night). There are villages where people don't get electricity supply for 6 hours a day. Except those who live in Metros or Cosmos, almost all towns in India have powercuts everyday for a minimum duration of 2 hours.

Given this situation do we need to have Earth Hour in India? We should rather consider the following

1. Improving the infrastructure to harvest solar power for individual homes. Use Solar Power to power our homes.

2. Reduce usage of plastic which is choking the "Crust" of our earth, thereby resulting in high pollution levels, poisoning of surface level air, reduction in ground water level

3. Reduce usage of 4 wheelers - use public transport where possible and car pool when possible.

4. Conduct strict pollution check on all vehicles that are plying on the road (especially Autos, Lorries and government vehicles including the Local transport corporation's buses)

By doing the above, we can definitely contribute towards saving earth and resources.Instead asking people to switch off power for one hour is just to frustrate the middle class people who can't afford a UPS or generator for their homes during this hot summer in India.

I believe we are getting too much into this global warming stuff due to the marketing trends of companies like I**a cellular whose Ad to use mobiles instead of paper is a big hit among the youth of the country. I never thought that Global warming could be used as a marketing strategy by someone to sell something and make money. If they are really trying to save earth, they should stop printing wall papers/ flex boards which would end up in some dumpyard and further increase pollution and rather use just MMS/ SMS to market their concept. Though they are clever enough to market their product, but if you analyze their operations, they are not "ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY".

so my suggestion is to concentrate on something productive instead of watching tv and getting inspired by some concepts that will not apply to our country like this "Earth Hour"

- Karthik