Christmas Lighting
Two letters published in your magazine on December 10th and 12th raised the issue of street lighting at Christmas. The first letter celebrated the decision taken by the City Council of Bilbao of lighting up the streets one week earlier this year, that is to say, on December 1st. The second complained about it and regarded it as an excessive consumption of energy.
It is undeniably true that due to this Christmas tradition of decorating the streets with lights the city changes its look for a time and seems to join in the celebrations. But aren’t we overdoing it a little? In these times of worlwide campaigning against global warming and institutional support of carbon footprint, what kind of values are we teaching our children?
Surely, rather than wasting all that energy for as long as five weeks, hadn’t we better limit the lighting to the Christmas period itself and this way save money and energy at the same time?
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