In a world where there is an increasing rate of climate uncertainty, the call to take a time out, even an hour, has a deep world-wide meaning. The recent call of the Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, to join the Earth Hour globally is not just another symbolic act. It is an indicator of an increasing understanding that environmental responsibility should be collective, urgent, and highly individual. When facing the growing climate challenges that the world faces, such efforts have a much larger impact than those of countries and have provided a common platform on which people can act.

The World Wide Fund for Nature holds the annual event, Earth Hour, which has become one of the most popular grassroots environmental movements in the whole world. Millions of people on the other side of the ocean turn off unnecessary lights at least half an hour every year changing the skyline into a strong message of environmental consciousness. This initiative is worth nothing in the darkness, but in reflection. It reminds the people........

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