Madison, Wis editorial on where to go from Live Earth

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Live Earth Concerts: Enjoy the Show, Then Vote Green
Editorial
On this day of the Live Earth concerts, it is appropriate to ask whether music performances can preserve the planet.

A measure of skepticism is appropriate. For all the good intentions of George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid concerts for working farmers in the U.S., and Bob Geldof’s Live 8 in 2005 for debt relief and other priorities of the world’s poorest countries, those concerts did more to focus attention on crises than to resolve them.

That may be the fate of today’s Live Earth shows in eight cities around the world. Answering former Vice President Al Gore’s call to action on climate change issues, Madonna, Genesis, the Police and dozens of other bands will perform in hopes of upping the ante in the fight against global warming.

With more than 100 acts performing live before hundreds of thousands of people and via TV, radio and the Internet before as many as 2 billion, there is no doubt that awareness of environmental concerns will rise.

But will it mean anything?

more:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/07/2358/

[rodeodance]

1. if it helps people recognize there is a severe problem. YES

[madrchsod]

2. i think the people who go to these concerts or watch them

are fully aware that there is a big problem that is going to directly effect them. whether or not the concerts have any direct effect on the governments and the corporations who rule this planet remains to be seen. one thing that is certain is the generations that will be most effected by climate change are the ones who have to lead this fight into their future.