Being on Eastern Time (US) rather than Eastern Time (Oz), I’m afraid I slept through the excitement of Sydney’s “Earth Hour” when, from the Lord Mayor to the lowliest rummy lying in the gutter belching incandescent meth fumes, the entire city turned out its lights for one whole hour in order to stop global warming. You can see a satellite picture of it here.
No, wait, that’s North Korea by night. Now there’s a guy who’s really doing his bit to save the planet.
As pioneer environmentalist Lord Grey famously remarked, “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”