I think you all need to stop being a bitter, cynical bunch. The world is bad enough of a place as it is. Why not accept the bad and try to make good of it how ever we can? We owe it to our parents, our children, but most of all, ourselves. Life is short. At the very least, lets enjoy it and appreciate what we do have.
If we did things the way you all proposed, we may as well just all kill each other right now.
I agree
"Oh my god ... .. she's so drunk!
I mean if everything is that hopeless or global warming isn't realy, its not like it matters if the concert goes on or not.
Play on!!!
It's not about GW being real or not, it's about the irony that a concert which consumes so much energy is held to create awareness of an environmetal problem. Also, celebs with energy consuming cars, equipment etc tell us to take a paper bag at the grocer's instead of a plastic one. Who are they to lecture us? I am sorry but I don't need them telling me that. That's got nothing to do with awareness.
The event in itself is nice to watch if you love music (and I do) but to call people cynical is a bit off. I could call you naive if you think that an event such as Live Earth will give us all a fuzzy feeling because we live in a bad bad world. I respect the fact you want to see the good in the world, but people who believe this event is pointless in what it is trying to accomplish have many reasons to believe so and back it up.
"Flickering neon-signs. Burned in consumer's eyes"
Somebody call the whaaaaambulance! Poor bronzehyperion is offended by the live earth concert because Sheryl Crowe travels by planes.
"I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger."
*lol* Where was Sheryl Crow anyway? Was she at one of the concerts? Because if not, I don't see any reason why I should feel offended by her plane travels.
Anyway, flyingflyn, I guess you enjoyed the concerts, huh? Well good for you :)
"Flickering neon-signs. Burned in consumer's eyes"
Sheryl Crow is one of those celebs speaking out on global warming. She famously confronted Karl Rove and "lecturered" to him about it. But some people think she is a hypocrite because her tour trucks and the planes she travels release so and so amount of Co2. Apparently only the eskimos have a right to speak about global warming.
Epilogue:
As for you, there are no more barriers to cross. All you have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane...the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem you have caused...and your utter indifference toward it, you have now surpassed.
"I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger."
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/Back to One Square [Steven Hayward]
Remember Sheryl Crow telling us a few weeks ago that we should combat global warming by using only one square of toilet paper in the bathroom (which prompted the classic Mark Steyn line that the new slogan of Left is apparently, "All we are saying, is give one piece a chance")?
Crow later said she was joking, but the Worldwatch Institute isn't. In the latest issue of their magazine they argue that Americans, with only 5 percent of the world's population, consume something like 25 percent of the world's toilet paper. Or something silly like that. Sayeth Worldwatch: "the reality behind the tissue's consumption is no joke."
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Sheryl Crowe totally rocks. Couldn't resist posting this though.
@ flyingflyn: I'll take your 'epilogue' as a compliment!
As for people speaking about GW, everybody does it, right? And sure, we are allowed to voice our opinions. But tell me you don't think its a bit hypocrite that someone like Madonna 'lectures' the common people when she has invested in plenty of companies with large CO2 emissions. You could argue it doesn't matter anyway and maybe you're right. Maybe none of it matters, because people will continue to say something on GW and drive their SUV's just the same. But if that's the case, than all Live Earth was, was a nice global energy waster.
And that sort of proves the point of people thinking this whole event was unnecessary and rubbish.
"Flickering neon-signs. Burned in consumer's eyes"
"Live earth haters..." Why are internet posters so quick to throw this word around whenever people challenge ideas instead of blindly following like sheep? Next time try something more nuanced and maybe I'll listen to you.
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Yes. Somehow the irony of it does not sit right. I'm still willing to say that perhaps the whole thing was well-intended for the most part. Who does not want Earth to be a healthier planet? If "world leaders" were to sign a treaty agreeing to , for example, filter their industrial waste--would that help? would it work???
If not, then what WOULD actually help the right people start cleaning up instead of polluting? And exactly which people (not countries but which leaders) would be able to really make some changes?
But on the irony, when I read the last post I was envisioning the mountain Haitians in their little hutted villages coming out on the evening of Live Earth and listening to the broadcast in their communal gathering place. Assuming it was somehow interpreted into Creole for them, what would they think?
Reality check: Only the wealthiest among them have clothes for all the children. Pots, pans and plastic dishes are precious commoditites. Food? Clean water? Maybe there's some today but tomorrow can we sell the radio to buy some rice?
My point is: How is this significant to most of the people on the planet?
DITTO EVEN 5 YEARS LATER!
I TRULY MISS STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!