Rock Stars and Celebrities Promote Climate Change Law Enactment
GENEVA — British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.
The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
The song entitled “Beds’r Burning”, which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s, can be downloaded from the Internet for free and will be presented to the public at a launch in Paris on October 1.
“If we do not stop the (greenhouse gas) emissions today, global warming will be still be with us in 40 to 50 years,” warned Walter Fust, director of the Forum, at a press conference in Geneva.
The media campaign featuring the song is aimed at putting pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.
Some of the other popular artists who add their voices to the anti-global warming song include French ‘Piaf’ actress Marion Cotillard, Senegalese star Youssou N’dour, Irish singer/composer Bob Geldorf, Chinese singer Khalil Fong, and even a Nobel peace laureate, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Face Fwd Comments: (sarcasm alert)
I think I have a tear welling up in my eye. If I had only known that musicians cared about the environment so much…….well, I would have…..hmmm I would have…., hold on I’m thinking about it. Let me get back to you on what I would have done after we go through some of the things musicians are famous for saying:
This is the most fun I’ve had with my pants on. Now if I’d said this is the most fun I’ve had while wearing women’s underwear, we’d be having an entirely different conversation…
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey
I’m sitting there with my parents, my mom’s sobbing after she finds out that I don’t have the gene (for Cancer) , and I’m like, “Guess what, Mom and Dad, I got my nipples pierced!”
Cassandra Ventura Singer and someone’s girlfriend
“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon?but I want to stay alive.”
Madonna
“The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.”
Tom DeLonge from Blink 182
“Punk is no longer a four-letter word. It’s a three-letter word now.”
“All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”
Mike Dirnt from Green Day
“Bands don’t do what we used to do. Bands don’t have the theatrics. We were lighting ourselves on fire. I had a chainsaw and cut a nun’s head off. You don’t see that shit at all anymore, which is kind of sad.”
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe frontman
“From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms,” he explained to the Guardian. “Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis. They all had killer uniforms. I mean, the SS uniform is f***ing brilliant! They were the rock stars of that time. What’re you gonna do? They just look good.”
Lemmy Kilmeister Motörhead’s
After reading that, never mind.
