Pointless? This is why I'm doing it. "Why are we doing this?
If all Where I've Been users turns off their lights for one hour, we can reduce this year's carbon footprint by approximately 22,290,910 pounds. That's equivalent to saving 400,000 trees or preventing 8.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. WOW!!!

What can you do?
Turn off your lights!

Last year 2.2 million people shut off their lights for one hour to show their awareness towards global warming. If we can help to spread the awareness, we can become a part of a great cause that will help to preserve the earth!"

So if this becomes 5 million people this year, then next year becomes more, is it so pointless. All for doing nothing more than the same thing you do when you leave your house for work. It's just an obvious step Liz, just like the first time you found out you could recycle glass or newspapers. Gotta start somewhere. Nowhere in this plan does it suggest power stations shut off as well, you tend to need power at hospitals, and traffic lights etc. This is purely, like not throwing the ketchup bottle in with the regular trash, a very simple, yet beneficial one can do. Not pointless.