How environmentally-friendly can the Live Earth concert actually be. Consider:
- 150 musical acts. All amplified.
- 150+ sound checks.
- 150+ tour buses or planes traveling to various arenas.
- Countless employees, roadies and concert promoters traveling to arenas, too.
- Chemicals and electricity used to print concert posters, fliers, tickets and t-shirts.
- 10,000 other events spanning 130 nations.
- Countless fans driving to said events.
- All major media outlets, magazines and newspapers flying or driving reporters to cover the concert.
- Al Gore blowing hot air about how the concert will help prevent catastrophic damage to the earth’s environment.
But, hey, everyone there gets to have a warm and fuzzy delusion that they’re actually doing something good for the planet. Meanwhile, the participants carbon footprint is going to do a nasty tapdance on Mother Earth.
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July 7, 2007 at 1:13 pm
But… but… the acts are awesome! So little tradeoff. They really should have all taken a lesson from the pittance of a show at the D.C. venue. It looks like a county fair stage and the amount of energy used can’t be much since half of what was telecast so far HAD NO SOUND.
All you can do is shake your head and say “Bless your heart” — which some lovely southern woman once told me translated roughly to “You’re so stupid.”
July 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Bahahaha. That’s one of my favorite expressions. Never quite encountered such an apt translation before.
July 7, 2007 at 2:49 pm
But, they were trying to send a message. Don’t you get it?
July 7, 2007 at 2:56 pm
The essage: It’s all about the oiiiiiillllll! But, strangely enough, they don’t bleat as loud when the over-consumption is theirs!
July 7, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Funny how that works.
July 7, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Live Earth is the political and environmental equivalent of getting a lapdance from your uncle. Sure, the intent is good, but the end result is really unpleasant for somebody.
July 8, 2007 at 11:43 am
Welp, I don’t have to write my blog entry about it now since you just said it.
A LONG time ago, back when the Grateful Dead were still around, all the little hippies in Seattle went to attend the show. We won’t even discuss the carbon footprints from those ridiculous VW mini vans, (and I love VW…but those vans are oil guzzlers and give off the worst exhausted fumes), we won’t discuss the smoke in the air or the stench from so many unwashed bodies…no. I only wish to talk about the MOUNTAIN of garbage that was left behind. I walked by the Seattle Center the next day on my way to work and was shocked, floored, stunned, appalled….hell, I was pissed at the amount of trash these “earth loving” people left behind. I can’t even imagine the filth that piled up in all those cities. I won’t bother to be kind and say, “bless their hearts”…I’ll come right out and say, “they are so stupid”.
July 8, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’ve read the same about Woodstock.
July 8, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Thank you! That is exactly what I told my husband, who “bless his heart”, is a bear of very little brain and believes all the crap spewing from Gore and his cronies.
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