Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan along with Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit launched WWF’s Earth Hour 2010 at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) office.
WWF has taken this initiative to create awareness about environment all round the globe. Earth Hour is a initiative where citizens show their support for action on climate change by turning off lights for one hour. In 2010, the switch off is being observed on March 27, from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
Abhishek Bachchan made an appeal to the citizens of the country to ‘switch on’ their minds and lend their support towards climate change and energy conservation by ‘switching off’ the lights for one hour.
Speaking to the press, Abhishek Bachchan said: “As responsible citizens of this planet, it is extremely crucial for us to address the colossal problem of climate change through ensuring responsible action and adopting a sustainable way of life. Earth Hour is one such platform and a people’s campaign that goes beyond national, regional, economic and cultural differences.
“It is important that Earth Hour 2010 should not be viewed as just another cause. We need to make this a movement to demonstrate our support for action on climate change by showing the world that actions such as those taken up at the ‘individual level’ like adopting an energy saving attitude and being more efficient in the use of energy can play a significant role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions that are eventually responsible for global warming.”
“It is a matter of pride for me that I am associated with this prestigious campaign. It’s time that we take a collective pledge to ‘switch on’ our minds and take one simple step to ‘switch off the lights’ on March 27, 2010 from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm,” Bachchan Jr added.
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