Live Earth 07/07/07

Al Gore has announced a 24-hour Live Aid-style event to be held on July 7 and featuring over 100 music stars, including Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, and Snoop Dogg. It will take place at seven different locations simultaneously, including London, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg and locations to be named in Japan, Brazil and the US.

The proceeds will create a foundation to combat climate change led by The Alliance for Climate Protection, currently chaired by Gore.
"In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people," Gore said.
"The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement."

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Pollution in China has devastating Environmental and Economic Consequences

A hard-hitting editorial in the Shanghai Daily alleges that realistic estimates put the environmental damage of industrial growth there at 8-13 percent of China's GDP growth each year, "which means that China has lost almost everything it has gained since the late 1970s due to pollution." The author, Pan Yue, vice-minister of China's State Environmental Protection Administration, says the environmental degradation came about from an misreading of Marxist theory that led most regions in the nation to cast aside traditional Chinese culture, with its emphasis on harmony between human beings and nature, in the mistaken belief that economic development would solve all their problems.
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