Live Earth
On Saturday 07/07/07 a monumental music extravaganza will take place across the globe to raise awareness about climate change –
Live Earth. Organiser, former US Vice President Al Gore, is hoping to achieve the same scale of awareness that Live 8 did in 2005 to put pressure on the G8.
Live Earth will bring together more than 2 billion people to combat the climate crisis. The top line-up will include: Madge, Razorlight and the Black Eyed Peas at Wembley, Lenny Kravitz and Pharrell in Rio, Kanye West and Akon in NYC and Snoop Dogg over in Hamburg. 24 hours of music will span seven continents, with concerts also taking place in Johannesburg, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney. Profits will go to the Alliance for Climate Protection.
The aim of Live Earth is to deliver a call to action to combat the climate crisis. In addition to raising awareness of global warming, the Live Earth Call to Action will urge people to demand that their country joins an international treaty within the next two years (to cut carbon emissions by 90% in developed countries) and to convince people to take personal action by reducing individual CO2 pollution and offsetting the rest to become ‘carbon neutral’.
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It is great that Live Earth went ahead. But all over the world, different performers came from different areas - on their own private jets etc. These producing large amounts of CO2, and probably doing more damage that it will help.
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