Live Earth

I hadn't heard of this but apparently on July 7th 2007 (that's 7/7/7) there will be several large LiveAid-style concerts called Live Earth "Live Earth will be a legendary music event – 9 concerts, over 100 headlining music acts, 24 hours of music across all 7 continents broadcast to over 2 billion people. Live Earth and the SOS campaign were created to increase awareness and engage a global audience with solutions to the climate crisis." Al Gore is behind it.

Uh huh. Apparently there's already some backlash. Roger Daltry said "The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert. I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel. We have problems with global warming, but the questions and the answers are so huge I don't know what a rock concert's ever going to do to help." Sir Bob Geldor, organizer of LiveAid is also opposed to it. Expressing a view I wish was true in the US he said "Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all fucking conscious of global warming." Whlie the concerts will try to use green energy, others complain that the performers will use private jets to get to the events.

I also learned there's another big concert this summer, the week before. On July 1st will be the Concert for Diana. "Prince William and Prince Harry will mark the 10th anniversary of their mother’s death with an event to celebrate her life." Proceeds go to charities. They seem with it, the web site today (May 19th) says "Extra tickets are going on sale tomorrow, Friday 27 April, at 9am."