Ext User(Bonzo)
04-07-2007, 04:35 PM
BLATANTLY BURNING CARBON
... Concerts in Sydney, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg, London, New Jersey
and Rio de Janeiro.
... A hoped-for audience of two billion.
... 6,000 parties in 119 countries.
... Saturation coverage from TV, radio, and the internet.
... 150 acts.
... 60 short films, 30 public service announcements, and a book.
Consider the vast carbon footprint of Live Earth, during which the world's most
indulgent people - rock stars - will demand that their followers pledge to "take
personal action to help solve the climate crises by reducing my own C02
pollution as much as I can."
Has Live Earth performer Keith Urban sold his Bentleys yet? (Actually, merely
selling those 12-cylinder babies won't reduce C02 emissions; he must destroy
them.) I've been trying to come up with a violently destructive Gaia-raping
stunt for us to participate in on Live Earth day, but it is literally impossible
for even several thousand non-millionaires to match Live Earth's own level of
eco-vandalism while remaining within their means and the law.
We've been out-carboned by Big Environmentalism. There's simply no way we can
come close to matching the colossal carbon output of Gore and his musical mates.
But it's not as though Live Earth is grotesquely, hypocritically excessive, oh
no; as executive producer Keith Wall explains:
Most artists are coming from nearby areas. Madonna, for example, lives in
London and will be performing at Wembley.
And once at Wembley - a tiny village green, I believe - Madonna's acoustic
performance will be enjoyed by 200 vegans, all of whom live within five miles
and travel by mule. As for Gore himself, he'll be at the New Jersey show. Again,
Wall explains:
We don't want him getting on planes burning carbon.
Regards
Bonzo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for anything except
for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the only thing
we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes" Dr. Richard Lindzen,
Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately forecast
the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT
and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
... Concerts in Sydney, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg, London, New Jersey
and Rio de Janeiro.
... A hoped-for audience of two billion.
... 6,000 parties in 119 countries.
... Saturation coverage from TV, radio, and the internet.
... 150 acts.
... 60 short films, 30 public service announcements, and a book.
Consider the vast carbon footprint of Live Earth, during which the world's most
indulgent people - rock stars - will demand that their followers pledge to "take
personal action to help solve the climate crises by reducing my own C02
pollution as much as I can."
Has Live Earth performer Keith Urban sold his Bentleys yet? (Actually, merely
selling those 12-cylinder babies won't reduce C02 emissions; he must destroy
them.) I've been trying to come up with a violently destructive Gaia-raping
stunt for us to participate in on Live Earth day, but it is literally impossible
for even several thousand non-millionaires to match Live Earth's own level of
eco-vandalism while remaining within their means and the law.
We've been out-carboned by Big Environmentalism. There's simply no way we can
come close to matching the colossal carbon output of Gore and his musical mates.
But it's not as though Live Earth is grotesquely, hypocritically excessive, oh
no; as executive producer Keith Wall explains:
Most artists are coming from nearby areas. Madonna, for example, lives in
London and will be performing at Wembley.
And once at Wembley - a tiny village green, I believe - Madonna's acoustic
performance will be enjoyed by 200 vegans, all of whom live within five miles
and travel by mule. As for Gore himself, he'll be at the New Jersey show. Again,
Wall explains:
We don't want him getting on planes burning carbon.
Regards
Bonzo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for anything except
for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the only thing
we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes" Dr. Richard Lindzen,
Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately forecast
the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT
and Member of the National Academy of Sciences