“Live Earth” — DOA?
Posted By: 'Okie' | 12:11 pm — 7/7/2007 | 
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From the reports that Tim Blair is getting and posting, “Live Earth” is more six-feet-under than rockin’ & rollin’ away.
Open Choke is into it:
I heard that soooo many politician people have been inspired by what one man, Al Gore, has done for peace and humanity and things like that, that Obama is working on an “Eat for those that Can’t” eating contest to raise awareness of, like, hunger and stuff in Africa or wherever. You know, where people are hungry ‘cause they might not have cars and stuff to get to a store or to a Dennys and stuff. Any way, make sure to watch it on TV! I’m watching it on a big screen and be online with all my friends texting about it. And don’t forget to light your lighter in the cool anthem songs to show solidarity with the people who are getting hot!
UPDATE. Nice numbers:
The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists’ and spectators’ travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions …
Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year.
The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums – much of which will go directly into landfill sites.
From the same piece, the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Dr John Barrett: “It would be far better for these celebrities to stay at home. Holding large concerts to highlight environmental concerns and cut carbon emissions just seems ridiculous. What planet do these people live on?”
UPDATE III. Canada’s Justin Wilson:
i’m all for live earth. it’s a great cause
but i can’t help thinking that maybe musicians aren’t the best medium. there must be some smart ones, but most of them come off as insanely stupid
Yes. Yes, they do.
A link from Blair to Investor’s Daily gets us this:
Will Al Gore’s “Live Earth” concerts to remind us of the global warming bogeyman be acoustic affairs played without lights and amplification? No? Then why not call them the Live Hypocrisy concerts?
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But there’s no crisis here except for a crisis of credibility — and not just that of Gore, whose credibility has been in question for decades. The credibility that’s on the line is that of the global warming movement, which is already questionable. The event’s organizers, promoters, celebrities and participants are engaging in one of most monumental acts of hypocrisy in memory.
As we all are so fond of saying — read it all!
Ol’ Big Al Gore’s “Live Earth” — DOA — not that the MSM will ever admit it . . . 
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