People around the world to switch off light for 1 hour on March 28

On Saturday, March 28, at 20.30 p.m., people from the entire world will switch off the light for one hour. It's a solidarity action with the international event named “the Earth Hour”, when citizens from the whole world are called to take stance against pollution and climate change, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Earth Hour movement was started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Sydney, Australia, on March 31, 2007, and in 2008 the event took a global proportion, spreading to 371 cities with a total population of 100 million people from 35 countries. Six weeks before the 2009 Earth Hour, the drive was joined by Moldova's capital – Chisinau, reads a press release of the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry (ENRM). The movement pursues to prevent the global warming, as this is one of the biggest problems the humankind copes with at present – the glaciers are melting down, the ocean waters are rising, as do extreme weather phenomena: less snow falls in northern areas and droughts in southern areas are more frequent. “If on March 28 this year, from 20.30 through 21.30, all the Moldovan households switched off the power, 278,000 kW would be saved. To produce this energy, 86,800 cubic meters of natural gas are used, emitting 165 tonnes of greenhouse gas,” the communique reads. In this context, the Ecology Ministry calls on all relevant authorities, companies and people of good faith to switch off the power in locales, institutions, dwelling blocks and private houses for an hour. The Chisinau city hall says it has ordered to switch off the power in all its subordinated entities at 20.30. The power distributor “RED Union Fenosa” SA is also sympathetic with the millions of people struggling against global warming. In this context, it calls on all its consumers to support the drive pursuing to make the people aware of the global warming. The WWF is the world's largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 90 countries, supporting around 1300 conservation and environmental projects around the world. From 2 million people in 2007, who participated for the first time in Sydney in the Earth Hour, in 2008 their number went over 50 million. In 2009, the Earth Hour aims to get involved 1 billion people from over 1,000 cities in the world.