Live Earth: What is it Really Going to Accomplish?
Written on 07/06 at 10:51 PM by Andy Posner
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Filed under: environment
Concerts were held all over the world today, ostensibly to raise awareness about global warming, and apparently to get people to pledge to making small, simple changes in their lives that require little effort, such as putting in energy-efficient light bulbs and drinking tap, rather than bottled, water. The concert is also, according to liveearth.org, "asking people to support a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 and a comprehensive international treaty on global warming by 2009." While that sounds great, as best I can tell, the concerts haven't done a good job of highlighting the drastic steps that need to be taken to solve the problem, as well as the economic and social opportunities that this creates for us. The problem with having pop stars push a serious issue is that they tend to be uninformed and more likely to be interested in partying than lobbying for change. The counter argument, of course, is that their wide appeal is useful for reaching a lot of people, and I would agree, but even the hosts of the concerts seemed to be eager to turn global warming into a hip, shallow problem.
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