First of all I frankly regret the death of Michael Jackson. I grew with his music. We lost icon, legend…however you will call it won’t be enough. It’s a pity that recent years were mainly covering some non-musical aspects of his life, but late 70’s, whole 80’s and 90’s belonged indisputable to king of pop regarding music progress, milestones, sales record, hits etc.. You can say: “but what had Jackson to do with energy management?”. I can answer quite a lot. Maybe not in a literal meaning, but he was always close to society/human problems and was active in different campaigns. I think everybody knows “We are the World” song from 1985 within “USA for Africa” – initiative aiming at getting money for fight against hunger in Africa .The single brought 90 mln $ of profit. There were only 800 000 singles and they were sold within 1 week. It was written by Michael Jackson together with Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones (he was responsible for the music concerning Michael’s 80’s albums). However more climate/energy related song was written by Michael Jackson ten years later. Please read more to see the video clip to it.

“Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth this weeping shore?”

“Earth Song” – this is the song I was thinking off. As you see it has been 14 years the song was published and the text, pictures are still timely…or even worse the situation is more difficult than then. Rainforests are still cut out, emissions are rising, animals are dying and people are fighting amongst each other all the time.

The desolated field where Michael Jackson is singing could become a picture of World in near future and it won’t be the cause of Terminator vs Human Kind war but the global warming and climate changes (ok maybe I exaggerate). The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th report from 2007 indicates amongst others that to avoid it the global average temperature increase, in a long-perspective, should stay 2 Celsius degrees below the pre-industrial times.

It’s really touching song…thank you Michael for it and for all music that is left after you and is immortal.

“What have we done to the world”…

Michael Jackson (29 August 1958 – 25 June 2009) Rest in Peace.

Regards,
Anthony
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