Switch off for the planet
We are asked to switch off all electricity from 7.55pm until 8pm on February 1 by L’Alliance pour la Plančte, a grouping of 72 environmental organisations which includes the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and the Nicolas Hulot association. This is a call for a nationwide five-minute respite for the planet, and is intended to draw attention to citizens’ concern about energy consumption.
The following day the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ will be published in France.
http://www.french-news.com/SPECIALS/...ash/index.html
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
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