The former US vice-president announces a world campaign sensitizing to the global warming with a concert on all the continents on July 7.

The former American vice-president Al Gore, herald of the fight against the global warming, announced Thursday February 15 a world sensitizing campaign to this phenomenon with a concert on all the continents baptized “Live Earth” on July 7 next. Entitled “S.O.S - the countryside for a climate in crisis”, this initiative “is intended to start a world movement to fight our climatic crisis”, indicated its organizers, among whom Al Gore and the instigator of “Live 8” of 2005 Kevin Wall, at the time of a press conference in Los Angeles. S.O.S wants “to reach the public in all the corners of the sphere via television, the cinema, radio, the Internet and Live Earth, a 24 hours concert on July 7, 2007 out of seven continents which will join together more than one hundred musical artists of world fame”, according to the same source.

Two billion spectators

On the model of “Live Aid” of 1985 and of the “Live 8”, “Live Earth” aims at a public of two billion spectators via television and the Internet thanks to collaboration of its Microsoft sponsor. “To solve the climatic crisis, we should reach billion people. We launch S.O.S and Live Earth to begin a process of communication which will mobilize people in the whole world so that they start to act”, affirmed Al Gore. Former democratic unhappy candidate with the presidency of the United States against George W. Bush in 2000, Al Gore supported film “an Inconvenient Truth” on the global warming and in which it intervenes. Work is selected with the Oscars of February 25 in the category of best documentary.