Live Earth - Planetary Crisis or Global Con
abracad, · Categories: environment, in the news, spiritual politicsYesterday's Live Earth concerts aimed at raising awareness of the impending environmental crisis were seen by some 2 billion people around the planet.
There is near unanimity amongst leading scientists that the future of the world hangs in the balance unless mankind starts to take action now. There has recently been major and growing publicity over the issue and few of the people that matter can plead ignorance after yesterday's concerts.
And yet still cynicism / doubts remain:
- Is there really a crisis or is it being exaggerated. If we don nothing it'll just go away / come to nothing - a bit like the millennium bug that was supposed to crash the worlds computers at midnight on Jan 31st 1999...
- It's simply a bandwagon for power-hungry politicos to jump on, let's not fuel their ego trips...
- Maybe there's a crisis, but I'll be long dead and gone by the time the sh!t hits the fan...
- Maybe there's a crisis, but it's the megacorporations causing it, recycling my garbage ain't gonna make much difference...
- Live Earth is just a gimmick - the music was good but how much pollution did it cost shipping in all those artists & fans and powering all the sound systems, lighting...
All valid arguments of course. But the facts are:
- Planet earth is a marvellous creation - perhaps not the only life supporting planet in the cosmos, but the only one we've so far found despite all our high-powered technology...
- The way everything all fits together to support life is little short of miraculous. Isn't that worth making some sacrifice to keep...
- Maybe we can't save the planet on our own, bt if we each do our bit, that's a lot of individuals contributing to one gynormous group effort...
- Through lobbying and simply in the choices we make in spending our money even the little people (or enough of them together) can influence the megacorporations...
At a time when we seem more at conflict than ever, doesn't it give us a chance to show the benefits of working together for a common purpose.
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