by ARES - Daijiworld Media Network
Panaji, Apr 13: Internationally famed pop singer Remo Fernandes held a free concert for the cause of raising awareness on global warming which fears to threaten coastline including goa's premier beaches.
The singer doubled up an international NGO Greenpeace in a concert here at Calangute beach.
"If we don't do anything right now, in few years, the place where I am forming will be underwater," the singer told reporters appealing the masses to wake up to this cruel reality. "Wake up before its too late," he said.
Greenpeace, a green-NGO, holding series of awareness programmes in India's five major cities – Kochi, Calcutta, Bombay, Chennai and Goa, had organized this one hour concert.
India's one of the most respected pop singer played the concert absolutely free along with his band Microwave Pappadums.'
"My entire band is performing as a respect and tribute to the greenpeace movement. I know about these activists and they make the governments move," Remo said.
Remo had composed a special song for the concert which was an adaptation of his old song titled Satisfaction. "This song speaks of how fantastically Goa is being choked in the garbage and plastic," the singer aptly dressed in complete green said.
The singer, who won coveted Padmashree award, has been on forefront of social campaigns including anti-drugs, anti-goa regional plan. "Our governments are waiting for the things to happen so that they can act," he said.
"It's a blue alert in Goa. We are pushing the government to save earth from the climate change. We wont be able to do anything once the change occurs," Greenpeace activist Amrut Bakshi stated.
Greenpeace is a global organization that uses non violent direct action to tackle the most crucial threats to our planet's bio diversity and environment.
It is a non profit organization present in 40 countries across Europe, America, asia and the pacific.
Greenpeace study about Goa has claimed that state's prime beaches including Majorda, Vagator, Anjuna, Baga, Calangute along with parts of capital city of Panaji, Fort Aguada and Mapusa are under threat.