SCORPIONS Join List Of Celebrities To Combat Global Warming
September 15, 2009, 15 years ago
According to Thehimalayantimes.com, German hard rock legends the 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 DURAN DURAN, French 'Piaf' actress Marion Cotillard, Senegalese star YOUSSOU N'DOUR, Irish singer/composer BOB GELDOF, Chinese singer Khalil Fong, and even a Nobel peace laureate, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.
