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Jaap den Haan | 10.03.2007 13:24 | Climate Chaos | Culture | Ecology | London | World

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The world needs to know about the dangers inherent in global warming. To bring these issues to the attention of a global audience a series of climate change concerts is being planned for 7 July 2007. It is hoped that the worldwide concert link-up will bring the problem of climate change to an audience of some 2 billion across the world – a bigger event even than Live Aid.
The event will show co-ordinated film, music and television events in seven cities including London, Washington DC, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto, with major broadcasters and media owners taking part to extend public awareness of global warming.
Former US vice-president Al Gore, whose movie An Inconvenient Truth has succeeded in bringing the importance of protecting the environment to cinema audiences everywhere, announced the event at a February 2007 press conference in London.
The organizers are planning a line-up of artists to ‘dwarf’ that of the Live8 and Live Aid concerts. Live Aid was about asking people for money, but this event aims to effect a fundamental change in attitudes, and in our relationship with the planet. The aim is that people will take action, including making personal pledges to save energy, and cutting emissions by, for instance, using energy efficient equipment or taking fewer flights.

Jaap den Haan

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The largest bike ride comes to town and they want you to ignore it...

10.03.2007 19:00

The Tour de France comes to London on 7/7/7 for the prologue. The Tour de France is the largest sporting event in the world attracting an audience that actually gets out instead of merely changing channel. If SideShow Bob and all the 'poverty history' thieves got on their bikes then perhaps the world would be so shocked by them actually doing something that they might follow their example.
People already know about global warming already, they just ignore it or help someone else to raise someone else's awareness - sideshow Bob. We need people doing, not talking, and that means cycling not driving.

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