This Saturday, the whole world will rock in a united effort to bring awareness to the climate change crisis through Live Earth:The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.
According to SOS (Save Our Selves), the group behind this global spectacle, Live Earth will be "a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis."
A Newsday article entitled "As the World Tunes," explains that Kevin Wall, founder of the SOS group and producer of Live 8, came up with the idea of organizing this event inspired by former Vice President Al Gore, whose Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth brought to the forefront the debate about global warming.
"Millions of people saw that movie and realized that this was a compelling argument," Wall said to Newsday. "I wanted to see if we could get the globe to pay attention, to get billions of people to take notice."
In the same article, Wall also added that aside from the concerts, the event's main goal is to teach as many people as possible about ways to improve the environment:
We want people to know they can step up and make a change... They can
make a change by changing how they treat the environment, by buying green, by
voting to put people in office who will negotiate these improvements on a global
basis. If we can get people to move in that direction, we can really have
an impact. ..
The historical music event will feature eight concerts in the following cities: New York, London, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Chiba and Tokyo.
Among the artists acheduled to appear are Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica, and Shakira. The event will also allow fans to see some of their favorite bands reunite for the first time, among them Smashing Pumpkins and The Police.
The event will reach its worldwide audience through TV, radio and the Internet- the concerts will be broadcast in the United States through NBC, but they will also stream through Live Earth's website.
However, according to Gore, the show will be just a starting point for a global movement that seeks to increase consciousness about our planet's suffering:
"Live Earth will be just the beginning of a three year campaign worldwide to deliver information about how to solve the climate crisis," he said.
1 comment:
It seems like it's going to be so big. Still, let me be a big skeptical about the fact that it's only in the interest of climate. Not to mention the money it will bring to the organizing ngo, the energy consumption to power up this whole action, etc.
Still, if you have the time, or don't have enough time to go to the concert, you could check some more info about the climate and they way it is influenced by the oceans. More, there is some analysis on the past century's climate.
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