What brings me here today you ask? What, after a long absence, has me reflecting on the events of the day? One more entry in my Blog of Hypocrisy. Yes, its the Live Earth Concert Day Extravaganza and yes, I am ready to puke.
Before I start, let me begin by saying, I believe acting as responsible citizens of our planet is something we should all do. Important warning notice to follow:
Use a bit of common sense before traveling
on your journey to responsible citizenship.
Lets start with this “concert”. I use the term loosely because only a few of the acts I have seen so far deserve my attention or my time. Three words: Lip Syncing Shakira. That is for another blog entry.
Live Earth is like Larry Flynt Promoting Chastity
Knock yourself out and read this little article in the UK Daily Mail
Might as well shove that massive carbon footprint right up Mother Earth’s ass.
How can I make this any clearer. Stadium rock concerts are not exactly eco-friendly. Would it be any different if they were trying to end hunger in Africa? Nooooo. If you read the Live Earth Pledge/Brainless Collection of Ineffective Tactics their proposals will equal MORE hunger and poverty as money and investment is sucked out of developing countries to “stop” a crisis that is, so far, just computer models and dooms-day predictions. Cherry picking statistics and making slide-show movies does not convert a scientific theory into proven fact. Again, best left for another blog entry.
Alert: Even if you buy into global warming, you should be leading the march against this hypocritical concert.
Papa Don’t Preach
Lets start with my first love, the ultimate virgin, a girl who changed my life, Madonna. I am will not hold back here, I think Madonna is a genius. This lady changed the face of the music industry and continues to boldly put her stilettoed foot forward in the name of marketing and music packaging.
Madonna, however, is not the poster child for “green-living”. If we purely look at her actions as defined by the “green police”, she is not a shining example responsible living or “green-ness”. I still love her music and will not be deterred by her carbon-positive lifestyle. I just think it is interesting she is even performing at a concert to promote a style of living she clearly does not embrace.
Sorry Madge for putting you on the chopping block, because every other “artist” appearing at the 9 venues is guilty of the same thing. Private jets, personal assistants, dancers, backup bands, private chefs, masseuse, hairstylists, equipment, and entourage jetting around the world in the name of a carbon-neutral lifestyle makes me sick.
How dare they preach to me about the necessity of driving the ugliest car on the planet (a Prius for all you unwashed few), recycling, growing bamboo, recycling, checking my tire pressure, recycling, riding a bike in the 110degree San Fernando heat, and for goodness sake RECYCLING.
I wonder how many of the artists and guests are following the Sheryl Crow “one square of toilet paper per doo” rule.
Total and complete B.S. Hypocrisy to the nth degree. Al Gore consumes more carbon in a week than I do in a year. And don’t give me any crap about buying carbon off-sets, thats a big load of carbon-positive methane spewing horse-dookie. A simple Google search brings you to hundreds of articles about bogus carbon off-sets.
Me-thinks Snoop Dog needs some Bling-offsets.
Want to help the environment? Stay home. Tell those pampered, bloated “artists” to go to their in-mansion recording studio, get out their handy digital camera and record a few songs. Stream the vids on the convenient Live Earth site and telecast on Bravo and Sun(thegreenestchannelEVER)dance and we can all watch from the comfort of our couches and computer stations. Tell their spray-on tanning specialists and hair-extension installers to stay home today. They do not need to spend the GNP of a small country to join a bunch of smug hypocritical “artists” singing about drugs and sex.
Eat, drink, and buy some guilt-assuaging carbon offsets, for tomorrow we shall fry. Or freeze to death. Or whatever eco-apocalypse is being promoted by the green-police…
Stay tuned… the hypocrisy continues and I may need to update for more eco-freakiness.
Oh wait, Spinal Tap just performed. This whole bloated worldwide concert may have been worth that one performance!
Dammit, I missed Spinal Tap!!! And I’m so glad you’re of the same sentiment as I am about the whole thing. I enjoyed your post. Bravo.
Al Gore’s gonna gitcha!!!
My wife, the pistol. Right on!
I was never impressed/fooled by Al Gore’s “irritating truth”-power-point-presentation-jump-on-the-band-wagon movie either.
The whole carbon offsets thing is kind of like this: Al Gore’s son may be a law breaking driver slash drug addict, but at least he was arrested recently while driving a Prius.
After all, Al Gore III has a history of being “green”: he was charged with marijuana possession in 2003, and had pot in his car in this recent arrest. Way to be, jackass.
The whole “carbon credit” scam is ridiculous. It’s just people making themselves feel better (or look better to the public) while continuing to do what they want, regardless of the cost, both financially and to the environment. Bah! Shame on all of them. And of course, they’ll use weasel words to try to convince all the enviro-wannabes that the whole mess really was carbon neutral. Ha!
Seriously. This makes NO sense whatsoever, and it’s almost as though you and I share a brain, as I just snarked about this very thing on my own blog!
I swear. “They” think we’re stupid, they truly do.
Great post!!
So I was trying to do the math on a little question I came up with during my July 4th holiday. Which automobile uses more fuel to travel 50 miles? A Prius averaging 105mph or a Hummer H2 averaging the speed limit? After much research and discussion with professionals it does seem the Hummer leaves a smaller footprint, or whatever the hell that means. In both cases you are driving one ugly ass piece of crap.
I almost forgot, if you missed it, it looks like Bush has this whole global warming thing under control for the USA.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/addressing_climate_crisis_bush?utm_source=cnn
i like global warming, it keeps my feet warm and i never have to wear a jacket (except when i visit argentina)
anyway, i dont see how anyone can come to such speculations, man is too stupid to understand how nature really works. if you ask me, i think climates are constantly changing and nothing is consistent – its pretty obvious if you look at historical records, that some times things stay cold.. sometimes they get hot. its all part of the balance.
anyway, i enjoy not having drive.. and not really having to care much. i am not a gross polluter and really, dont care much about making a difference. if people want to make a difference, then i suggest death – that way there are less people on earth.
thanks for listening.
Great Post!
I liked Duran Duran.
Runs off into the distance singing “her name is Rio…”
Global Warming is a liberal ploy to promote socialism. Al Gore sits around using tons of “non eco friendly” cars, that run on gas, and his multiple homes aren’t anything to smile at either. Also, you can tell it is a socialism ploy already because liberals want to start charging you to cross bridges if you don’t use an “eco friendly” car. And they claim that money will help compensate for people’s bad carbon footprint.
Anyways, global warming is not real at all. 10 years ago people were worried about global cooling.
Also, there is no evidence of a significant trend to show a rapid change of weather. The ecosystem is always changing! One year it will be a few degrees hotter, the next, cooler.