Lights out at Eiffel Tower

[kskiska]

THE Eiffel Tower's lights will be turned off for five minutes on Friday as part of a campaign to save energy and draw attention to the plight of the planet.

The agency that manages the Paris landmark said today that it will be joining a campaign to draw attention to "sustainable development and the preservation of the planet" with the five-minute blackout at 5.55am AEDT.

The campaign called Five Minutes of Respite for the Planet is being held as world experts meet in Paris to thrash out a report on global warming.

The Eiffel Tower has recently changed its lighting system to reduce energy consumption by 30 per cent, according to the SETE agency that manages it.

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[flyarm]

1. i will be having lunch there in 4 weeks...i will be sure to tell

those running the Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower ..a sincere thank you..for all of us on this planet for taking global warming seriously!!

thank you France!!

fly

[jannyk]

4. That would be...

Groupe Alain Ducasse. I was there 4 weeks ago, just before Alain Ducasse took over both the Jules Verne and Altitude 95. Take pictures 'cause they are doing a complete remodel beginning in May.

[TomInTib]

2. Five minutes. Yeah.... that will definitely send a message...

Symbolism is just grand, ain't it?

Five minutes...

I think that I will go tell my girlfriend to unload the batteries...

[TheMadMonk]

3. I won't ask :From what?"

[WilliamPitt]

5. Gandhi making salt was symbolic

So was throwing a few boxes of tea into Boston Harbor.

So was the moment when those of us along the inauguration route in January '05 turned our backs when George wheeled by.

So was a mom from California waiting outside Bush's ranch to talk to him about her dead son.

Action is good. Sometimes, however, a symbolic act is needed to spur the action.

Just saying.

[TomInTib]

7. When I was a child...

I spent a lot of time on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.

I would take a bucket and go scoop up a bucketfull of that salt water..

and run back up on the beach.

And I would hold that bucket and I would wait for the tide to change.

Then I would go and pour that bucket back into the Gulf..

And I would imagine that I was having an impact on the World's climate.

I was maybe 5 or 6 years old.

It is all relative, ain't it?

[Canuckistanian]

9. Aha! So it's your fault!

Your real name is Al Nino, isn't it?

[corkhead]

10. well said

If we can't at least make symbolic gestures in the face of the overwhelming, what is left?

:toast:

[PhilipShore]

6. Global warming is a popular issue overseas

[magellan]

8. Yes, because they're informed on the facts of the matter

They know how serious it is.