Mr Tan Hoe Sing, Chairman of Bishan North Zone 1 RC, invited Earth Society to participate in the Marymount Community Center Earth Hour event on 26 Mar. This is the 2nd year Mr Tan invited us to participate in their Earth hour event.
Due to the pandemic situation, the Marymount CC Earth Hour event was held online via the Facebook platform from 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm. The programs included Environmental presentations from Catholic High school, Whitley Secondary and Eunoia Junior College. Marymount residents were invited to join the online event. The organizer also encouraged the residents to switch off lights from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm in support of Earth Hour.
Earth Society conducted a 7 mins presentation on Biodiversity Loss during the event. We gave a brief overview of how Biodiversity Loss is affecting the world. From World Wildlife Fund 2020 Living Planet Index report, global wildlife population has decreased by 68% in the past 50 years. This is due to deforestation, hunting, overfishing and pollution. Human’s consumption of the world’s resources now exceeds the world’s capacity to regenerate by 56%. (We are using the eqv of 1.56 planets to support our activities). We encourage our citizen to reduce our consumption pattern, support Meatless Mondays to reduce Biodiversity Loss.
The video was placed in ‘Marymount CC’ Facebook page to provide more info for the residents: https://www.facebook.com/MarymountCC/videos/1000985050833564/
We are glad that more grass roots organizations are organizing Green events online to spread the Eco-message to the residents. We hope the green message can spread far and wide among the residents in Singapore.