'Earth Hour' sees landmarks around the world including Buckingham Palace, Eiffel Tower and Empire State go dark

THE World’s most famous landmarks were plunged into darkness in a bid to draw attention to climate change last night.

The switch off is a worldwide movement led by WWF which has happened every year since 2007 to help raise awareness.Moscow Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, St Basil's Cathedral, and Zaryadye Park's viewing platform before and after lights were turned off during the Earth Hour 2019 environmental campaign Earth Hour occurs once a year, and people are encouraged to turn their lights and put away their electronic devices off for just one hour in the evening.

The idea is to save energy during that hour, while also encouraging people to be more wary about how much electricity they use.The movement has since spread to a staggering 180 countries and tens of millions of people join in. Major landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace and The Empire State building turned off their power from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time to mark the event.

I didn't hear about this, so whatever supposed attention they were trying to draw probably isn't working so well.

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