Lights out in Paestum: park participates in Earth Hour

To mark Earth Day, Paestum Archaeological Park is participating in the Earth Hour event by turning off the lights of the Temple of Neptune and the Basilica on Saturday, March 30 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Earth Hour is the largest global mobilization of citizens and community across the Planet to fight climate change, promoted by WWF International and plans to turn off, exactly tonight from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.30, the light of a house, a building, a monument, the lighting of a street or a particular area of a city for one hour, thus participating in an initiative with a strong symbolic value: an opportunity to express the will to feel united in the global challenge to climate change.

In Paestum, the initiative is organized in collaboration with WWF Silentum, and during this hour in the museum forecourt, accessible to all, a video on environmental issues will be shown.

“A symbolic act: turning off a monument to turn on a light on environmental issues; it is only an hour but one that has a strong symbolic value to highlight issues related to global climate change. From a place symbolic of our Earth’s ancient civilization a gesture for the future of modern civilization. We all need to become aware that even simple everyday gestures such as turning off a light bulb can help save our planet. We turn off the light to reflect on the future of the Earth, and we want to do it with all of you at Earth Hour at the Temples of Paestum on March 30 at 8:30 p.m.,” said WWF Silentum President Antonio Sabetta.

To raise awareness on the issue of climate change, the Paestum Archaeological Park is organizing the exhibition Poseidonìa: history and future of a city of water that will run from September 2019 to January 2020.

“Some studies on sea level rise due to climate change see, in 2100, conspicuous parts of the Sele Plain, and therefore also the temples, submerged by water. At this time of climate and environmental emergency we are trying to draw public attention, because we believe archaeology can and should make a vital contribution to how we frame the future: illuminating how cultures rise and fall, it helps us to understand the consequences of our actions, to choose the future in a conscious way,” said director Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

Source: release

Lights out in Paestum: park participates in Earth Hour

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