For the fourth consecutive year, the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) launched tomorrow, Saturday, the largest international campaign to combat climate change. Individuals, communities, businesses and governments around the world will turn off, at 20 hours, 30 minutes, their lights for one hour, transcending all barriers, religions, cultures, societies, generations and geographical locations in a global celebration for Planet Earth . And for sixty minutes, the WWF invited to put monuments, facades, illuminated signs and homes to give a respite to the planet. The theme is "Turn off the lights, turn on the Planet." It is a way of demonstrating the commitment of climate change.
The initiative has succeeded in drawing the attention of celebrities like Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Pedro Almodovar, Miguel Bosé, the band El Canto del Loco and Juanes, among others. But companies like Telefonica and Inditex, and football clubs like Real Madrid, Valencia and Bayern Munich. At that time, the most famous buildings and monuments of the world will be in the dark: the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building New York, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, the Golden Gate (San Francisco), the Pyramids of Giza (Egypt), the Parthenon in Athens, the Basilica San Pedro (the Vatican) and the Big Ben in London. In Spain, they will: the Alhambra in Granada, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the fountain of Cibeles in Madrid, and the most important buildings of National Heritage, as the Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia), the Almudaina (Palma de Mallorca) and the Royal Palaces of Madrid and Aranjuez.
"artificial light flows, say some sources," issued in intensities, directions, schedules or spectral ranges, unnecessary to perform common activities wherever they are installed, they produce light pollution. The night sky brightness is increased by reflection and scattering of light in gases and particles in air. The alteration is of such magnitude that even disappear stars and other celestial objects. The social and economic losses are numerous. In a country like ours, with marked lack of energy independence, the waste of light produces an irrational increase in energy expenditure and, consequently, economic inefficiency. Excess and poor location of the light produces traffic problems and dangerous driving. And leads to alterations health and grief at night ecosystems. "
expected participation of 1,000 million people in about 6,000 cities around the world. A movement that aims to show concern about light pollution and vote in favor of finding solutions to climate change. Then you can hear the event's official song, "Not ours," Los Sundayers, Madrid group that mixes in songs ska, reggae, rock, jazz and funk.
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