Snarky Letter Of The Day

From today's Dawn:

LAST week I received an email from WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature, urging me to do my bit to combat climate change by switching off my lights for an hour from 8pm to 9pm on Saturday evening.

People all over the world would do the same according to their local time, creating a wave of ‘lights out’ that would ripple around the globe like a Mexican wave at a soccer stadium.

Always one to support acts of global solidarity, I marked my calendar and awaited my turn to flick off my lights for the environment at the appointed hour. When 8pm on Saturday rolled around, I discovered that I had jumped the gun and thanks to the KESC that had been saving the environment since 7.15 pm.

Furthermore, I also helped save the environment between 11am and 1.30pm and briefly from 4.30pm to 5.15pm. I feel a lot better about the power outages now. I wonder if the KESC can apply for carbon credits for the loadshedding.

ARIF BELGAUMI
Karachi