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Questioning Live Earth and the politics of climate change

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Two articles first published in Summer 2007

Questioning Live Earth

Pop Goes Politics, by James Panton in The World Today (PDF): 'Cool mega music events might seem to produce cool politics too, but they are far less effective at connecting politicians with their voters and creating a sound debate on the issues. The Live Earth concerts should give rise to critical questioning rather than unthinking approbation.'

Measuring the political temperature, by Josie Appleton on spiked: 'Today’s "global warming story" – where the moral is always that we should calculate every bit of carbon we use – owes more to the anxious zeitgeist than scientific findings. It is time we rewrote the global warming story.'

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