Jets For Climate Change
July 8, 2007
Getting lectured as dessert with your rock n roll just does not feel right. Saturday’s concerts tended to lull their stadium crowds as well as their TV crowds as mini commercial lectures from mostly celebrities like Cameron Diaz made for a sleeper of a day.
One non celebrity mini lecture came when the story of an Alaskan Village that literally has lost 2000 feet of shoreline was told. A mans house was washd away by Ocean tides.
I could not help but think that in California we experience this tragedy yearly as the poor villlagers of Malibu lose pieces of their homes as the rising tides take what belongs to Mother Ocean. Heck I recall years ago homes falling off Cliffs in Malibu. That was when the earth was in Global Cooling in the 70’s.
They could not help mention that the Iraq war has gotten billions while this Alaskan village got zilch.
In a TV interview earlier this week, Matt Bellamy of the band Muse mocked the hypocracy of the event as “private jets for climate change.”
John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday that Live Earth will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas.
“We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth,” he said, speaking by telephone. But, he added, “if you can reach 2 billion people and raise awareness, that’s pretty fantastic.”
One theme that went thru the whole show was how using those twirly lights will really lower our carbon output. I mean every interview and mini lecture seemed to talk about these things. So Monday I am looking into picking up some stock as I am sure Gore has a piece of that action. Funny thing, Iheard if these things break they leae a pretty nasty mini ecological disaster, so be careful as you do you part in lowering your non consequential carbon output.
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