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Lily Allen, Bob Geldof record climate change song
Published: October 03, 2009- Digg
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DURAN Duran, Lily Allen and Bob Geldof are among 60 musicians who have recorded a ‘Band Aid’-style song to raise awareness of climate change.
The world’s first musical petition is a re-recording of the Midnight Oil song Beds are Burning. Mark Ronson, Jamie Cullum and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas also took part.
The song has been launched to raise awareness of global warming in the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
Lyrics include: “How can we dance when our world is turning? How can we sleep when the beds are burning?”
Every download will count as support for the “Tck, Tck, Tck” campaign calling for world leaders to sign up to a tough international deal on climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Kofi Annan, former UN chief and head of the Global Humanitarian Forum that is behind the campaign, described the movement as the “Band Aid for the internet generation”.
“Climate change is the greatest humanitarian challenge facing mankind today. And it is a challenge that has a grave injustice at its heart. It is the major developed economies of the world which contribute the overwhelming majority of global greenhouse emissions. But it is the poorer and least developed nations that are hit hardest by its impact.
“This is, I believe, a critical moment in the campaign to mobilise people around the world to demand climate justice. Already, over 1 million people have signed up to our ‘Tck Tck Tck: Campaign for Climate Justice.’ – Telegraph
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