Live Earth opening band: "Say No to Nuclear Energy"

[bananas]

video: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=39125&mesg_id=39125

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6278204.stm

0400 BST - NICK BRYANT, SYDNEY

Live Earth was ushered in with the jolting sound of Australia's scorched red centre - the howl of a didgeridoo in a traditional Aboriginal welcome.

Then, in front of a sparse and still-gathering crowd, the band Blue King Brown took the stage, with black T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Say No to Nuclear Energy".

It's a contentious issue here, where the Howard government is looking into building nuclear power stations to meet the country's demand for energy.


Blue King Brown encouraged Sydney fans to reject nuclear energy

http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/earth_shirts_070707/photo_0.html

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft
Natalie Pa'apa'a of the band Blue King Brown opened the concert in Sydney, with an anti-nuke message to get off her chest.

[phantom power]

1. Wow. Did they threaten their audience with ice cubes too?

:eyes:

[NNadir]

2. How many billions of joules did those speakers burn to get out this message?.

It sort of reminds one of how all of the websites promoting solar energy actually burn more energy than solar PV cells can produce.

Can the antinuclear industry get any more pathetic?

This reminds me of the moron anti-nuclear rock star "Sting" who has bred like a fly and consumed like an ocean liner. He once made a movie about how much he could consume called "Bring on the Night," a movie featuring the birth of one of his brazillions of kids.

Brazillions of bright high power floodlights focused on his pathetic ass, he sang an illiterate song about "Carbon-14."

Opponents of nuclear power are killing the earth's atmosphere. Mostly the opponents of nuclear power are middle class <em>consumers</em> with poor educations.

I'll bet lots of people are really satisfied with themselves after <em>driving</em> back from their big concert.

Many people, none of them too bright, use the "appeal to authority" fallacious argument citing rock stars as experts. In general however, Rock stars have zero scientific insight. This is ironic since the rock star life style often involves so much consumption.

The "feel good" and "pretend we can sing it away" crapola - yet another attempt for people to avoid responsibility by <em>lying</em> to themselves - will not defeat climate change. Probably <em>nothing<em> will defeat climate change. But the best shot is clearly nuclear power. People who oppose nuclear power are the <em>cause</em> of the problem and have nothing at all to do with a potential solution.

Nuclear power, at 30 exajoules of primary energy per year, is the largest single source of climate change gas free energy there is. It seems reasonable for the efforts of <em>smart</em> people to give us 20 exajoules more. The problem is, unremarked by dullard consumers standing in from of tens of thousands of watts of amplifiers and lights, that we need at least 500 exajoules, not 50.

Given what I know about climate change, it is actually depressing to see how <em>silly</em> the matter has become. It is a crisis, not a joke.

[Bread and Circus]

7. Can you link me some of your publications in science?

I'd really like to read them and learn more about your professional science discoveries and advancements.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Hmmm

From thier wikipedia entry:

They travel to as many places as they can, breaking new ground with each tour. The band has toured up and down the east coast consistently as both a headline act and in support slots. Blue King Brown have performed at The Falls, East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, Womadelaide, Woodford Folk Festival, The Great Escape... Etc etc. Emph mine.

Seems to be consistent with thier tour dates. Anyone care to guess how many tons of CO₂ they spew out each year?

:eyes:

[NNadir]

4. I'm sure they travel by electric car powered by solar cells.

We're soooooooooooo critical you and I.

[jpak]

5. They should hitch rides on all those Aussie uranium ore trucks, trains and ships

exporting yellercake to China...

or not

as all those diesel guzzlers spew far greater quantities of CO2 into the skies of Oz than a band bus...

[Dead_Parrot]

8. Yeah

Whereas Silica is hauled by pixies with very, very small mules.

:eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

6. They also link to Alex Jones' RW InfoWars kook web

Alex Jones -- you know, who hates Al Gore, thinks Global Warming is a part of the International Masonic/Jew Conspiracy, wants the white race to run the world, thinks Dick Cheney gave the orders on 9-11 ... and so on ...

Blue King Brown doesn't even have the presence of mind to scrutinize the links they put on their website. This would be forgivable except that they make such a big fuss about their consciences and the need to educate the masses. I wonder if all that revolutionary rhetoric is really just a fashion statement to boost sales, per the Wikipedia article.

--p!
"I’d point my finger at them and I’d scream shame!!!!"
(Blue King Brown, You and I)

[razzleberry]

9. I now oppose nuclear power ...

as this group of EXPERTS believe nuclear power to be bad