Live Earth
July 5th, 2007 by Daniel A concert event unlike any other is coming to eight cities across the world in just a couple days. It is called Live Earth and its goal is to raise awareness about global warming and how everyone can do their part to help control it. There are a tremendous number of musicians lined up to take part in the event. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, and Madonna, just to name a few are among those participating. The cities hosting the events are New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Rio De Janeiro, and Hamburg (there will also technically be some sort of affiliated venture to Antarctica just to say that all seven continents are represented, but that doesn’t really count for anything). Former Vice President and Presidential candidate Al Gore is one of the men behind Live Earth. This, coming off the heels of his film An Inconvenient Truth about global warming is his next attempt at getting the word out to put an end to human causes of climate change. Despite this huge event and its attempt at doing something good for the planet, there are still some critics. Many people are saying that the travel alone involved with getting the artists to the locations and the concert-goers to the venues will cause such a negative impact on the environment that it makes the whole theme seem extremely hypocritical, not to mention the electricity used in putting on the shows. I can certainly see the point these critics make and I think that the organizers should do a little more practicing of what they preach, however I still think that the events will be important as a way of informing people about how important it is to get a hold of this situation as soon as possible and educating them on how they can do their part. You can catch the TV broadcast of the event on the Universal HD channel for 22 hours straight on Saturday, July 7th. I just hope that the average person has the intelligence to see it not as just a cool concert, but for what it is really about.
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