Let's Party To Save The World

[monk222]

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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it because Al Gore and a bunch of elderly rockers organized an all-star stadium gala on its behalf? The colossal flopperoo of Live Earth is a heartening reminder that there are some things too ridiculous even for global pop culture, and one of them is the Reverend Almer Gortry speaking truth to power ballads.

-- Mark Steyn for New York Sun

I wouldn't be as gleefully mischievous about it, but I did think the show to save the world was silly, though I am dull like that. Yet, the silliness is there:

Still, for the brave few who stuck with all 174 hours of Live Al, there was something oddly touching about seeing rock gazillionaires who'd flown in by private jet tell Joe Schmoe all the stuff he doesn't need. Your own car? A washer and dryer? Ha! Why can't you take the bus and beat your underwear on the rocks down by the river with the native women all morning long?

As long as we're making environmentally-friendly lifestyle suggestions, here's one thing we don't "need": Stadium rock. Amplifiers. Electrified instruments. Entourages. Recorded music. They all add up to one helluva carbon footprint.

Global warming is presumably a serious problem, but there is a certain frivolousness in these efforts, seemingly as much about vanity as anything real.

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Comments

[mmmontserrat.livejournal.com]

Last year in Lake Tahoe, as I was riding around the resort area on a public transportation bus I was listening to some hard core, foreign born Republican, and she was talking about how "Global Warming" was a manufactured liberal lie. I listened to her laughing to myself with great interest as she spoke from her soapbox in the bus. It was hilarious and saddening to think that people like her really do exist in the world and that they think they are right? When one of her own group of people asked her about the scientific evidence she claimed that it was propaganda.

Hmm....

I couldn't though I tried, and I always try to see things from the other side, I just could not do it on this topic.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I cannot really appreciate the other side on religious issues, those fundamentalists who believe in a 'young earth' and who disbelieve evolution and blah blah blah.

Your Tahoe doubter certainly does go on another kind of extreme. This issue is too passion-riven in public discourse, betwen those who think the sky is falling but are mostly acting out and people like this Tahoe doubter. But I think we are beginning to get serious and looking for real, practical options between denial and emotionalism.

[poovanna.livejournal.com]

Global warming is presumably a serious problem, but there is a certain frivolousness in these efforts, seemingly as much about vanity as anything real.
C'mon man! Any time's a good time to party!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Not if I don't have a date. :p

[poovanna.livejournal.com]

Aah! Now we're getting to the real issue of why you're pissed of with Live Earth! :-D

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

i have no interest in debating global warming (or much else, really) in online forums. i do a lot of that in real life. i will say, however, that i found the whole liveearth thing to be preposterous from the outset. hypocritical, intellectually lazy, and a certain little rascals style 'c'mon darla, let's have a show!' kind of mentality.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

And if we're left with Gore and Madonna to save the world, then I think we're just fucked. :D