Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Live Earth is ambitious by any standard: eight concerts featuring the biggest names in music, playing for a 24-hour period across the globe, all for the cause of global warming.
But like its template -- 2006's Live 8, the global concert devoted to poverty in Africa -- the mission of Live Earth is somewhat amorphous. Its aim is to 'trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.'"
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I think this concert, and others like it, certainly have a good and idealistic goal for the future. Maybe they can even have some sort of effect, however "amorphous." However, I think they could be much more effective, though less broad and wide-ranging, if they focused on one single facet or aspect of an issue, or on getting a single thing accomplished.
When the only thing that is hoped to be accomplished is to "influence a new political reality", I think that makes it too easy for politicians (or anyone, really) to pay lip service to support an idea without making any actions towards change. If the goal was smaller, more localized, and more concrete, it would be much easier to both see results and to know when people are actually interested (or not interested)in sacrificing something for real change
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