Lights Go Dark for Earth Hour to Highlight Climate Change

In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, so did the Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye.    That scene was repeated over and over around the world Saturday night: at Sydney’s Opera House; at New Delhi’s great arch; at Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers; at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; at St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. It lasted for an hour and its power is purely symbolic. But in countries around the world, at 8:30...

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