I've recently had a bit of a learning curve on the subject of Global warming. I know the information has been out there for a long time and the media seems to be on a bit of climate change spree at the moment (well at least they are in Aus) but you never know quite what is actually right or relevant when you are reading the information from the newspaper now.

One thing i did stumble across two weekends or so ago was an article reporting the announcement of the live earth campaign by al gore and the concerts to be accompanying it on the 07/07/07. I had been meaning to see an inconvenient truth but, as is always the case, hadn't gotten around to it but with my interest piqued rented it out and watched it that very night. I was impressed and shocked all at once. Impressed at how the documentary had actually been made interesting to watch, they were able to get across all the damning information and included the personal bits about his life in a non-complicated form and shocked at just how bad the problem is, i was left cursing myself about not understanding more, earlier.

My school is now going to be showing parts of the DVD during a lunch break which is fantastic, but one of the main questions I suppose I still have is, is it going to be really effective? While their is no doub that the spread of awareness should be huge but will it really cause as great a change? I look at the Live 8 concerts and while it was a fantastic movement that not only united most of the world and increased the spread of awareness about the true scale of poverty around the world, it just seems in the aftermath that there is still so much out there to be done that the impact almost seems to gently fade into the background, and I worry that this might happen with these concerts. I really hope that it doesn't and I think that a lot of work will have to be done so that there is a huge change made in response tothe concerts!

With peace and love always
hil