Bob Geldof, organizer of the 1985 Live Aid concert that set the standard for world activism through music, has also expressed doubts that Live Earth would be more effective than pressing government and industry to action. But Gore called the concerts "an SOS, a wake-up call to the entire world. And it will launch a three-year global campaign to get the facts out to everybody in the world" through his Alliance for Climate Protection.
On Thursday Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the world's poor would be the first to suffer from predicted increases in global temperatures, rainfall and extremes like drought and flooding. Gore's Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" argues that human activity is raising the Earth's temperature, threatening changes in weather patterns, the seas and endangering life on the planet. His crusade against global warming has prompted calls for him to enter the 2008 US presidential race after having narrowly lost the 2000 vote.
But he told NBC: "I don't expect to be a candidate again, ever." At Wembley Stadium in London, musical acts will include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas and John Legend. The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Jon Bon Jovi, Roger Waters and Gore will take the stage at Giants Stadium outside New York.
Angelique Kidjo, Joss Stone and UB40 will play in South Africa. Shakira, Snoop Dogg and Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) will play at Hamburg and Linkin Park will play Tokyo. Performances will be carried on national television networks around the world and on the Internet at http://liveearth.
msn.com. Bob Geldof, organizer of the 1985 Live Aid concert that set the standard for world activism through music, has also expressed doubts that Live Earth would be more effective than pressing government and industry to action.
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