Tel-Aviv took part in turning out the lights for 60 minutes. I was there with my wife and kids. The mayor gave a speech to a few hundred and at the count of three, all lights in the city hall went out. To be honest, I was expecting a bit more. I was naive enough to think that all the lights would go out.
Apart from the city hall, most of the lights in the area did not go off as expected. A friend of mine said to me a few days ago that Israel has not reached the point where global warming and environmentalism can be taken too seriously. According to him, we are still pretty low on the maslow’s pyramid; an emerging economy, most of our budget is directed to defense and our school system is deteriorating at a very fast pace – we are still struggling to survive at a very basic level.
Well, that might be true, and we do have our challenges ahead of us, but for a few minutes on the 27th of March 2008, we joined the rest of the world in celebrating the existence of our lovely planet earth.
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