FOR Earth Hour on Saturday, 26 March 2022 (from 20:30 to 21:30) all South Africans are invited to join the global community in celebrating the role nature plays in our lives and the vital role it has when it comes to coping with climate change.
All you need to do is to turn off all non-essential lights for one hour – not lights that affect your, or public, safety.
The planet’s natural systems are vital for all our futures, and yet, the rate of global loss of nature during the past 50 years is unprecedented in human history. Nature not only provides us with food, water, clean air, and other services, it is also one of our strongest allies against climate change.
We are already seeing the impacts of climate change in our warming world. Lives and livelihoods are being affected as the result of more frequent extreme weather events, from heatwaves to floods and wildfires. We need to realise that what we do to our planet, we do to ourselves. We are not just living through history; we are shaping it with every action we take, and our current experience is just a foretaste of what is to come. To stop runaway climate change, we must act now.
– ISSUED: WWF SOUTH AFRICA
