“LIVE EARTH”
 

A CONCERT FOR A CLIMATE IN CRISIS
CITIZENSHIP AHEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE



As Al Gore announced with satisfaction, the next 7-th of July a series of 7 concerts will be held in 7 cities around the world to draw the attention of the public opinion to the global warming phenomenon and its terrible consequences. The slogan could not be clearer than that: “A concert for a climate in crisis”.

This idea is a reflection of a much needed global answer to the climate crisis: the first concert will be held in Sydney, (Australia) and will be followed by others in Tokyo, (Japan), Shanghai (China), Johannesburg (South Africa), London (United Kingdom), Hamburg (Germany), New Jersey (US) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It will last 24 hours and the audience is forecasted to reach 2000 million viewers, which is a total record.

Within the Youth Center for Europe, we are supporting this initiative totally given the absolute necessity to act against the climate change once and for all. The time for analysis has passed as well as the time for infatuation. This is the time to act and the action starts in both the massive and the personal conscience of citizenship. I say massive given that it should reach everybody; I say personal because we have to be able to convince and to motivate those who, for different reasons are uninformed or those who are on purpose misinformed about this problem.