What on (live)Earth?

[Gruff]

Oh joy, this is coming up:


Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts 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 will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms - TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.

Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year 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. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.

Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, the Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, an event that brought together one of the largest audiences in history to combat poverty. Wall formed a partnership with Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection to ensure that Live Earth inspires behavioral changes long after 7/7/07.

Live Earth will stage concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg; and Inonu Stadium in Istanbul.

Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at http://www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.

With support from the U.S. Green Building Council, creators of the LEED Green Building Rating System, Live Earth will implement new Green Event Guidelines. All Live Earth venues will be designed and constructed by a team of sustainability engineers who will address the environmental and energy management challenges of each concert site, as well as the operations of sponsors, partners and other Live Earth affiliates. Each venue will not only be designed to maintain a minimum environmental impact, but will showcase the latest state-of-the-art energy efficiency, on-site power generation, and sustainable facilities management practices.

Live Earth is a project of the SOS campaign , which is using a powerful multimedia platform - films, television, radio, Internet, books, wireless and others - to move people to combat the climate crisis.



Do we really need this?

Is it just another example of sanctimonious not-very-clever-pop stars sermonizing and trying to be intellectual and show how ‘confrontational’ they are?

Is it pop stars being moral and upstanding citizens and trying to make a difference, to lead by example?

Have they got a point?

Are they misled?

Is it just a load of bollocks?

[The Flight Lieutenant]

apparently, they're vastly reducing carbom emmisions , by forgoing the usual sytsem of lighting the stage and instead using the light shining out of Bono's arse.

[G*]

All very valid points...but Spinal Tap are playing, and in my book that makes the whole event entirely worthwhile. Let's boogie!

[ash]

All very valid points...but Spinal Tap are playing, and in my book that makes the whole event entirely worthwhile. Let's boogie!

Don't they have to play a show once every seven years in order to maintain control of the Spinal Tap trademark? (Or did I just pull that from Bono's illuminated arse?)

[G*]

Heh heh...if that's true, then that's even more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap...