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BY GLENN GAMBOA
glenn.gamboa@newsday.com
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The American leg of Live Earth: The Concerts
for a Climate in Crisis, like the other concerts on all seven
continents, proved to be as complex as the issue it is trying to solve.
...for organizers, the solution will come with raised awareness.
"Today, more than 2 billion of us have come together in more than 130
countries on all seven continents," said former Vice President Al Gore,
the event's organizer. "Times like these demand action," he added,
after announcing the 7-Point Pledge that he hoped millions would sign
while watching the concert.
...it was
nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about
demanding action for the environment. "Get rid of all these rotten
politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than
corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist
author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son,
who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start
treating them as traitors."
Primatologist Jane Goodall offered
a greeting in chimpanzee language, before saying, "Up in the North the
ice is melting, what will it take to melt the ice in the human heart?"
BY GLENN GAMBOA
glenn.gamboa@newsday.com
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The American leg of Live Earth: The Concerts
for a Climate in Crisis, like the other concerts on all seven
continents, proved to be as complex as the issue it is trying to solve.
...for organizers, the solution will come with raised awareness.
"Today, more than 2 billion of us have come together in more than 130
countries on all seven continents," said former Vice President Al Gore,
the event's organizer. "Times like these demand action," he added,
after announcing the 7-Point Pledge that he hoped millions would sign
while watching the concert.
...it was
nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about
demanding action for the environment. "Get rid of all these rotten
politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than
corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist
author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son,
who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start
treating them as traitors."
Primatologist Jane Goodall offered
a greeting in chimpanzee language, before saying, "Up in the North the
ice is melting, what will it take to melt the ice in the human heart?"
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