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Live Earth Concerts: Rock for Climate July 7
Using Music to Move the Message: Billed as 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," Live Earth is ambitious and praiseworthy.
Photo Credit: Silvia Izquierdo, AP
It's also a starting point for a campaign "led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming." Ticket sales apparently benefit the climate groups.
Artists such as Madonna, The Police, John Mayer, Genesis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Crowded House, Snoop Dogg, UB40 and many more are participating.
The concerts will take place in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia and Germany. In Antarctica, a group of scientists will play a concert for 17 people at a British research station on Adelaide Island.
If you can't make it to one of the shows, you can watch some on TV or online or catch it on radio. MSN will stream all of the concerts live online and NBC will show some in prime time Saturday night. Both XM And Sirius radio will carry the concerts.
The Live Earth site has a carbon-footprint calculator to help you measure your impact on the climate. I went through it quickly and had a score of 299 for my household -- a tad below the U.S. average of 325 (lower is better).
There's also a Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook, with 77 tips to reduce your climate impact. It's a small-format book with each tip on a two-page spread, so it's easy to read a few tips at a time.
I think the concerts, book and campaign are all great things, because they will probably motivate a bunch more people to take action on climate change. Are you going to one of the concerts? What do you think of these events? Post your comments here.
Photo Credit: Katsumi Kasahara, AP
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YO, IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE? LIVE EARTH, WE ARE THE WORLD, FARM AID, FREE TIBET, NO NUKES... MONDAY MORNING COMES, THE OPENING BELL RINGS ON WALL STREET AND IT'S BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL... OK, LIVE EARTH MIGHT REVIVE THE AILING MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR A WEEK OR TWO AND SELL SOME PETRO PLASTIC CDs AND DVDs AND AL GORE CAN CROW ABOUT HOW HE'S GONNA TELL MR. SUN TO CHILL; BUT THEN THERE IS STILL APOPHOS SPEEDING CLOSER TOWARD OUR PLANET ON A COLLISION COURSE AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA STOP ANY TRAFFIC WITH A GUITAR EVEN IF YOU IMAGINE YOU'RE JOHN LENNON REBORN IN JESUS CHRIST'S RE-BOOTED BODY... GOOGLE ADDAM BONGG FOR MORE INFO http://www.cdbaby.com/all/add
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Gee, sounds like another "genius" Republicunt sounding off. Water vapor is not the leading cause of the green-house effect. Humans and every thing we use emit 230 BILLION tons of CO2 a year compared with mother nature and volcanoes, which stand at 125-135 MILLION tons. Al Gore is only trying to make the public aware to what is threatening our planet and existence, because so many people like you get their "facts" from Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and other Republicunt morons. So much for your two-cents, which is about all it's worth.
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Al Gore's job is to distract you from the REAL ills facing this country, like the Chinese, Japanese and Asian Indians buying up bonds the US govt. sells to fund our national debt. When they call in the markers, you, your kids and grandkids will owe 10, 20, 50, maybe $100,000 each! So you keep buying those Toyotas in which case most of the profit goes to Japan which uses it to buy the bonds. So as you look out in the driveway at your shiny "yota, go tell your kids you love 'em! Combine that with murderers that go free, increasing taxes, illegal immigration, etc., and you realize the country is shot! If you don't realize it, it's because Al Gore and his environmental wackos have you too worried about global warming! That's his job, to distract you! Did you know the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect is water vapor!? They're worried about CO2. Each of us exhales 2.2 lbs of CO2 per day! The US and world population has doubled in the last 40 years! So YOU are responsible, not the cars! Weed whackers, cars and industrial plants combined, emit just 1/20 of what nature does in the form of human exhalation, volcanoes, and rotting vegetation! Wake up people! You've been scammed!
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