Journal: Live Earth

On July 07, took place a musical wake up call all over the world which was intended to begin the vital breakdown nedeed in terms of actions to save the planet. The concert was held in the main cities of every continent and was luckily very well attended. Many of the most famous world musicians took part of it in order to support the idea of starting a global popular movement that will force governments to take decisive action to combat global warming.
Unlike many other campaigns similar to this one, Live Earth's organizers looked for the support of people through names instead of money. The idea was to reach the highest number as possible of people comitted to the responsibility of fighting for this common case. What was planned was that all the people involved continue the fighting that the concert proposed, after it. And this can be done in many ways. People can help the planet every day in their daily lives by taking ecological methods of living. Or they can do it in more social way by taking part in organizations which take care of environmental issues and supporting them.
The audience of the concert was asked to support a seven point pledge which ranged from calling on governments of the industrialized countries to bring in a treaty to cut up carbon emissions up to making a prsonal commitment in their own lives to cut back on the emission of greenhouse gases which are causing the atmosphere to warm up.
The idea of the concert sounds great to me but I wonder if it will work. I hope so and I believe that it is better to do this type of campaigns in a massive way, just as Live Earth organizers did it, instead of leaving the responsibility to each govermnet or each country separetly. First of all, because there are still many people arund the world who have no idea about global warming and climate change and about the danger that this problems imply to the continuity of life in earth. And secondly because these are problems that affect all of us, at the same time in the same scale. This are wordly problems, for what we should work to solve them all together. But we can only do it if we all stand up and be counted. This was precisely what the Live Earth's massive message proposed by it campaign of awarness about global warming and I believe it is a good case to join in and to fight for.