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Live Earth

Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts, organized to raise awareness for climate change, made worldwide headlines and attracted 10 million viewers to its live video feed. Yet many questioned its effectiveness, as well as the logic of holding a massive, carbon-generating event to publicize the danger of carbon emissions.

What’s your take? And most importantly, was the music itself any good?

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    Awesome!! What an amazing idea to bring a collective, global consciousness to facing a problem for which there are many solutions!! It was fantastic!
    Posted by: Jemma63 | 10/1/2007 11:43:13 AM
    The telecast was a total bore. Most of performance were edited and/or cut short except the last 2 hours of the 22 hours. MSN did a better job of coverage than Sundance.

    The message of Live Earth became total contradiction. All hyped with no purpose and point became lost. The amount of energy and costs of the stage production just kills me.

    Madonna's performance declared it best. F- it

    Concert For Diana was 50 times better in terms of quality.
    Posted by: MySpace.com/JB2unique | 7/23/2007 2:32:59 AM
    The Alicia Keys, Keith Urban duet for Gimme Shelter blew me away! Also loved Corinne Bailey Rae.
    Posted by: Rveep | 7/21/2007 2:35:43 PM
    Music was okay and tried to accommodate most tastes and demographics, but overall it was a lackluster event that grew somewhat monotonous, spurring a fatigue after just a few minutes. Another issue was the stars they chose, few were compelling and not a sufficient amount of A list celebs. Not a failure nor a bad effort, but just not the best thing to watch on TV at the time either.
    Posted by: Mario McCash | 7/17/2007 6:02:13 AM
    Well, I volunteered at it in New Jersey and I thought it was an amazing experience. It is hard to comment on something unless you are directly related to it. Al Gore is trying to help bring awareness to people to clean up what we messed up. The music was great, the crowd was into recycling for the most part and everything went very smoothly. More power to everyone involved. I hope they plan one for next year and I will volunteer again. Maybe that is the key for the rest of you.
    Posted by: Eileen | 7/17/2007 4:55:50 AM
    Charity concerts like that are always kinda awkward.
    Posted by: none | 7/16/2007 10:31:01 PM
    Seemed like a bunch of self promotion for Gore and proved once again that this is not a scientific but rather a political cause. Much ado about nothing!
    Posted by: Brian | 7/16/2007 10:06:36 PM
    I don't think it was advertised well as I didn't know which channel to watch. I found some clips online, but I just wasn't into it...
    Posted by: Sam | 7/15/2007 9:35:40 PM