Live Earth
Renewable Energy
Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by
the Alliance for Climate
Protection in the US, The Climate
Group and Stop Climate Chaos
in the UK, and other international organizations, to drive individuals,
corporations and governments to take immediate and lasting action to solve the
climate crisis. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance
for Climate Protection.
Live Earth ended with the crowd going wild for
"Message In A Bottle" as Kanye West and John Mayer joined The Police
onstage for the
final hurrah at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The event featured an impressive lineup, including Melissa Etheridge, KT
Tunstall, Dave Matthews Band and Keith Urban. All the artists performed for
free, passionate about the cause.
Roger Waters (founder of Pink Floyd), Kanye West, and The Police were
incredible! The audience even did the wave a few times before the Police took
the stage. You could feel the excitement, both for the music and the message. Al
Gore hopes people are inspired to make personal changes in their lives and put
pressure on political leaders to change policies on pollution. He maintains the
event was more about raising consciousness and less about raising money.
Global warming, as you know, is caused by the "greenhouse effect". CO2 and other gasses reflect heat radiation back to the earth rather than letting it escape into space. My dad often yelled at me for leaving my window wide open in mid winter. He'd say: "What you trying to do, boy, heat the universe? A certain amount of global warming is a good thing. Indeed without heat from the sun our planet would be a frozen wasteland, life would be impossible, BUT the kind of "Global Warming" that Al Gore is talking about goes beyond the cozy comfort level.
Al Gore, and the rest of us, live on a tiny little space ship with limited resources. "Global Warming" is just a generalized label for the kinds of problems caused by runaway capitalism and corrupt leadership. Rather than creating new jobs in the renewable energy industry government leaders and large businesses encourage a non sustainable lifestyle. Our sun and our earth have worked together for over 200,000,000 years to produce and store our limited supply of oil and we have consumed half of that non-renewable resource in the last 100 years. It's true that the oil business has turned some millionaires into billionaires but how about the rest of us? Has planetary wealth increased. Buckminster Fuller who coined the phrase "...doing more with less" compared our fossil fuel economy to the starter motor of a car. Oil has helped get civilization off to a flying start but now it's time to run our world on a more sustainable fuel, and I'm not talking about gasoline.
Oil is no longer necessary to keep the wheels of civilizations turning. Old habits die hard and so will all the people and industries that have become dependent on non-renewable energy concentrates. Oil like sugar can is habit forming.
How can I get out of the rut I'm in, you ask?
Conserve energy and get
involved with renewable energy projects.
Learn how to build and install your own low cost solar heating systems.
All energy for life comes from the sun either
directly or indirectly. Buckminster Fuller once said:... "we've wondered
too far from the roots." I say it's time to come home. It's time to find
our lost connection with the sun. It's time for: MTD Solar Heating
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