I stood there in awe as I watched the world-renowned musician/activist Sting drink from a plastic water bottle as he led into one of his many mega-hit songs, “Message in a Bottle.” For myself and what I have been led to believe was around 200,000 other people, Sting’s performance of that song was one of the simplest, yet most effective ways of portraying the message spawned by the massive climate rally hosted by Earth Day Network.
Washington, D.C., the epicenter for the first Earth Day in 1970, participated in its 40th anniversary celebration. Director for the hit movie Avatar, James Cameron, said that “we find ourselves facing the greatest challenge of our time: saving our natural world from ourselves.”
Avatar takes place on a distant world, but it is really about this miracle planet we have right here. Avatar dramatically demonstrates how human invasion almost destroyed the fabric of life on the planet Pandora. The movie shows that all living beings are connected and that those who seek to exploit nature rather than respect it will only destroy themselves.
Acting on that realization, President of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Mike Dunn, said, “At the core of Avatar lies a message of empowerment and self-discovery. Our initiative to plant one million trees allows us to promote a healthy, sustainable planet while hopefully empowering others to get involved.”
