Esta série de concertos está a suscitar polémica: eis mais um artigo, desta vez no Guardian.
Algumas passagens (recomendo a leitura integral):
«So Live Earth is trying a new approach. If we can't produce change with the cold facts, it reckons, maybe we can capture people's imagination by making climate change accessible, groovy, sexy and fun. It is a marketing logic that works well for consumer goods, and let's face it, global rock concerts would shift any product. If Live Earth were Live Knitwear, Pringle would shoot into the FTSE 100.»
«The problem is that we are locked into patterns of collective denial and have adopted a wide range of strategies to avoid accepting personal responsibility.»
Psychologists observe that the more witnesses there are to a crime, the lower the chance that any of them will intervene. Major assaults can happen in busy shopping streets and no one does anything because they are all looking at their watches and saying, "I wonder when the police will get here?" I fear that Live Earth could fall straight into a similar trap. It could create two billion bystanders getting hip to the climate beat and demanding to know when someone is going to do something about this awful climate change thing.
Algumas passagens (recomendo a leitura integral):
«So Live Earth is trying a new approach. If we can't produce change with the cold facts, it reckons, maybe we can capture people's imagination by making climate change accessible, groovy, sexy and fun. It is a marketing logic that works well for consumer goods, and let's face it, global rock concerts would shift any product. If Live Earth were Live Knitwear, Pringle would shoot into the FTSE 100.»
«The problem is that we are locked into patterns of collective denial and have adopted a wide range of strategies to avoid accepting personal responsibility.»
Psychologists observe that the more witnesses there are to a crime, the lower the chance that any of them will intervene. Major assaults can happen in busy shopping streets and no one does anything because they are all looking at their watches and saying, "I wonder when the police will get here?" I fear that Live Earth could fall straight into a similar trap. It could create two billion bystanders getting hip to the climate beat and demanding to know when someone is going to do something about this awful climate change thing.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070705/ennew_afp/entertainmentmusicclimatewarmingarcticmonkeys_070705021655
Ontem gostei de ver na RTP passarem mensagens de rodapé como "se todos reciclarmos, o mundo será melhor".
Foi bom termos chegado onde chegámos em termos de consciência ambiental, mas há que combater esta ideia que pôr a caixa do iogurte e o jornal para reciclar é suficiente. Ou que conduzir um híbrido que em vez de 6 litros gasta 5, salva o planeta.
Esses gestos não são de maneira nenhuma suficientes.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2121489,00.html
http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1298862
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