[Vision2020] Climate Change Concerts With Global Reach Dwarf 'Live Aid'

[Ted Moffett]

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Many in the US continue to play ostrich to the overwhelming scientific
evidence that human induced global warming is a major threat to humanity,
while numerous nations in the so called developed world are attempting to
address the challenge of climate change by taking substantive action on a
national level, in part to comply with the Kyoto accords on climate change,
which the US rejected.  In the US court battles are under way to block
regulation of CO2 emissions in California, the only state so far to pass a
comprehensive attempt at lowering CO2 emissions.  There is no substantive
comprehensive federal effort in the US to substantially lower CO2 emissions
in absolute amounts, though recent energy legislation in the US Congress is
heading in the right direction, and might at least slow the rate of
increases.

This concert, with a global reach, is at least an attempt to encourage more
awareness of the daunting challenge of human induced global warming, though
I question how much impact it will have to change behavior enough to achieve
the lowering of absolute CO2 emissions globally that is necessary to address
global warming.  At least it is an international effort to address the
problem, even if not much more than a hyped public relations campaign by
music industry stars:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ebad1e4a-b719-11db-8bc2-0000779e2340.html

Ted Moffett
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