Well well look at how clever the Boston Globe thinks it is (Live Earth)

[underpants]

I went looking for this exact article this morning not because I need such a childlike nuisance in my life but because I knew it would be there.

:eyes:

See it is all or nothing-no reason to even try if you don't KNOW you are going to succeed.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Forget hypocrisy, Live Earth brought message to billions
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/07/09/forget_hypocrisy_live_earth_brought_message_to_billions/

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It's hard to imagine a better setting for Live Earth, a.k.a. the Concerts For a Climate in Crisis, than the petrochemical corridor of the New Jersey Turnpike. Riding the train from Penn Station to Secaucus Junction (short of walking, bicycling, or riding a horse through the Lincoln Tunnel it was the only responsible way to get to Giants Stadium), the view out the window was a gray panorama of smokestacks and utility towers.

This has to be the ungreenest place on earth. For eight hours on Saturday it was the U S launch site for what Al Gore, the driving force behind Live Earth, hopes will be a worldwide movement to reverse global warming and save the planet.

But the image of Ludacris rhyming about gas-guzzling SUVs under the Live Earth banner was almost comical. And then there's Madonna, who headlined Live Earth's London show at Wembley Stadium, one of nine concerts on seven continents. Madge has an annual carbon imprint a hundred times greater than that of the average human thanks to her nine homes, fleet of cars, and the exhaust-spewing army of buses, semis, and jets used on tours.

Still, to complain about the performers' shortcomings as environmentalists is to miss the point. They weren't enlisted as role models. They were there to deliver an audience -- 2 billion strong if estimates are accurate, via television, satellite radio, and the Internet -- and odds are good most of them are roughly as eco-enlightened as NBC new s anchor Ann Curry. Prior to her primetime interview with Gore, Curry confessed to a small group of reporters that she had bought her first compact fluorescent light bulb earlier that day.<--- so clearly this whole day HAS already had an effect....oh sorry we are not supposed to look at it that way

[redqueen]

1. I've seen too much of that sort of sentiment from

both sides: those who really never cared and those who care a lot.

*sigh*

[Contrary1]

9. "those who really never cared and those who care a lot."

And then there are those who suddenly fall into both groups. :sarcasm:

I posted on a predominately Repub board that those who were whining the loudest do not even believe in global warming, so what was their problem? Talk about hypocrisy.

Proud to say that my one statement killed their whole thread.

[redqueen]

16. I know people who have recycled for ages...

and who try to educate others about the environment... who were preoccupied with the energy wasted with all the hullaballoo. I appreciate that it got a message out, and demonstrated how much support there is to change... but... *sigh*

I'm just tired.

[SoonerPride]

2. The planet doesn't care if we destroy ourselves.

I'd say that the planet hopes we hasten our demise.

So do all the other species.

[endarkenment]

3. See this month's Scientific American.

An Earth Without People



http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=2691D716-E7F2-99DF-38F54EF6075AAB4D

[Katherine Brengle]

6. I want to live on an Earth without people!

I always say this to my DH though - our destruction of the environment will, at the end of the day, kill US. The plant life will eventually restore itself and animal species will come back. Earth will survive pretty much anything.

The question is - will the human race be here to witness it?

[endarkenment]

14. I know, it looks so nice.

Of course it is a hopeless contradiction.

[underpants]

10. Vonnegut said that Katrina was Earth's self defense mechanism kicking in

or something like that

[loudsue]

19. That is true.

The planet would be better off....unless people started learning to LOVE OUR MOTHER.

Then, it would be nice.

:kick:

[Zywiec]

4. I think Ann Curry buying a CFL is a success.

Think of all the others who were probably just as motivated to change their light bulbs. I think every little bit helps.

[Katherine Brengle]

5. Well, to be fair, one bulb per household over 2 billion people would

make something of a difference. Every little bit counts.

(Did they do anything to offset the energy used to stage the concerts?)

In the end, it was about communicating information to a wider audience, and I think that happened.

[underpants]

8. Actually yes

they coordinated flights to use as few as possible and the ones they had to use were offset with eco-credit purchases ( you contribute to renewal energy investment -for example-) as well as other ways.

[Katherine Brengle]

20. Thanks - I figured as much but I wasn't sure.

:D

[stellanoir]

7. Heard a two minute report on it Sunday morning when I wanted to be

revelling in the afterglow from Saturday that said "Only half of Americans believe in global warming and people weren't really gonna do anything about it. They were mostly there for the music."

Frigging corporate media downplays progressive movements at every frigging turn.

Ughhh

[underpants]

11. Exactly

Like I said I went looking and found this kind of nonsense straight off.

[redqueen]

17. Yep...

and too many in the public turn right around and start parroting that garbage.

[stellanoir]

18. I've been calling it "oligarchical hypnogoguery" for years;

And yes, the talking points of the Corporate Media do truly qualify as low level mind control which is what has motivated me to write politically oriented prayer threads since last fall.

Methinks we can't fix this mess with intellect alone. . .

Far better to use both sides of your cranium than one.

Here's an alternative. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA1t-nyA0v4

www.firethegrid.com

[Tesha]

12. Did you actually *READ* the article? It was pretty positive.

Especially towards the end.

Tesha

[underpants]

13. No of course not

"I saw a drunk middle-aged man toss his beer bottle in a recycling bin for the first time. Multiply that by 2 billion. That's a measurable outcome."

Doesn't cover for all the smartassed attitude from the rest of it IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

[Tesha]

15. Okay -- opinions obviously vary.

> Doesn't cover for all the smartassed attitude from the rest of it IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

Okay -- opinions obviously vary. ;)

Tesha

[mtnester]

21. They are so afraid of Al Gore, so very afraid

Stark-raving scared shitless.