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I'm just one person. What can I do about global warming?
This was Sydney's answer. If you want to know more about the campaign, go to http://www.earthhour.org/>
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Wonderful initiative!
Probably some day we will see a kind of “Live Earth” but with cities connected all over the world disconnecting lamps all together!
Anyway, disconnecting lamps doesn’t solve anything but it’s a good campaign to start talking more and more about the subject and there is always someone that makes the difference… we can all make it!