The British group Massive Attack will only travel by train during their tour of Europe. This tells the lead singer, Robert del Naja, on BBC Radio 4. The band wants to reduce their CO2 emissions to a minimum.
finally, Del Naja is feeling bad about his approach to travel in the past. For touring, it has a Massive Attack of the aircraft, contributing to the warming of the earth.
The band has, and the details of their engagements over a period of four years, to be made available to the University of Manchester, and the co 2 footprint of the music industry is calculated. In collaboration with the Tyndall Centre for Climate change, is attempting a Massive Attack now is to find ways to be as environmentally friendly as possible tours and concerts will be organised.
“for example, You might decide to have the parking spaces in the area, temporarily shutting it down, or are working with a company in which the electric buses are,” said Del Naja.
It will be a Massive Attack on their tour exclusively by train. The members of the crew and the equipment by rail to be transported.
“We have no choice”
“As musicians, we have a CO2 intensive lifestyle of nagehouden. But, as a society, we are all, in an economy driven by fossil fuels, which we really have no choice,” says Del Naja.
“The challenge is, therefore, not only on a personal level, to make sacrifices, but this is mainly to ensure that the system is changing. The Business-as-usual is over.”
