From the Daily Mail:
The Live Earth event is, in the words of one commentator: "a massive, hypocritical fraud".For while the organisers' commitment to save the planet is genuine, the very process of putting on such a vast event, with more than 150 performers jetting around the world to appear in concerts from Tokyo to Hamburg, is surely an exercise in hypocrisy on a grand scale.
Matt Bellamy, front man of the rock band Muse, has dubbed it 'private jets for climate change'.
A Daily Mail investigation has revealed that far from saving the planet, the extravaganza will generate a huge fuel bill, acres of garbage, thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, and a mileage total equal to the movement of an army.
The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.
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, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations.
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.
Moreover, the pop stars headlining the concerts are the absolute antithesis of the message they promote - with Madonna leading the pack of the worst individual rock star polluters in the world.
Sepermodel Kate Moss, another profligate polluter through her use of private jets, is producing a T-shirt for the event. Yet, Gore is touting the concerts as 'carbon neutral'. So how can that be?
Live Earth is nothing but a huge, hypocritical, mutual admiration concert. They're all frauds. Be sure to read the rest of the article.
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Every year, they have an "E... (Below threshold)1. Posted by cirby | July 7, 2007 3:59 PM | Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
Every year, they have an "Earth Day Birthday" concert here.
And every year, there's literally a foot of trash left on the ground by the concertgoers.
1. Posted by cirby | July 7, 2007 3:59 PM |
Score: 9 (11 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 15:59
2. Posted by Meezle | July 7, 2007 4:02 PM | Score: 9 (13 votes cast)
I love the hypocrisy of carbon offsets. Here's a thought for celebs to chew on ---
Why not plant a few thousand trees AND leave the Learjet at home. Then you might actually be accomplishing something.
2. Posted by Meezle | July 7, 2007 4:02 PM |
Score: 9 (13 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 16:02
3. Posted by WildWillie | July 7, 2007 4:25 PM | Score: 10 (16 votes cast)
It always amazes me how the liberals fool themselves into thinking they are doing something worthwhile, but really more harmful. Anything to "feel" good. ww
3. Posted by WildWillie | July 7, 2007 4:25 PM |
Score: 10 (16 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 16:25
4. Posted by Laura | July 7, 2007 4:31 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
You have a typo in the post title - it's "mammoth."
4. Posted by Laura | July 7, 2007 4:31 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 16:31
5. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 4:42 PM | Score: -16 (22 votes cast)
Why pretend that concert organizers, performers and audience members said things were going to change in one day?
Why pretend to not understand?
5. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 4:42 PM |
Score: -16 (22 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 16:42
6. Posted by 914 | July 7, 2007 5:04 PM | Score: 8 (12 votes cast)
Why pretend the hot air emitted by these "artists" will change anything?
Why not understand that they pretend?
6. Posted by 914 | July 7, 2007 5:04 PM |
Score: 8 (12 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 17:04
7. Posted by Las Vegas Fun | July 7, 2007 5:09 PM | Score: -1 (5 votes cast)
Its amazing the amount of abuse by these stars with there hummers and private jets.
7. Posted by Las Vegas Fun | July 7, 2007 5:09 PM |
Score: -1 (5 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 17:09
8. Posted by radmila | July 7, 2007 5:22 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Were Geldof and Bono there with their pompous selves?
8. Posted by radmila | July 7, 2007 5:22 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 17:22
9. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 5:29 PM | Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
"Were Geldof and Bono there with their pompous selves?"
What an odd question.
9. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 5:29 PM |
Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 17:29
10. Posted by SAHMmy | July 7, 2007 5:30 PM | Score: 8 (12 votes cast)
I went to the Live Earth website. They wanted me to take a pledge. They wanted me to pledge to switch a number of bulbs in my house to CFLs.
I guess they don't know much about CFLs.
They also wanted me to pledge to take public transportation once a week. I look forward to seeing the photo of Al Gore's fat ass squeezed onto a public bus seat.
They wanted me to pledge to send a link to their lame website to someone else as part of my pledge.
What gargantuan morons, the entire lot of them.
10. Posted by SAHMmy | July 7, 2007 5:30 PM |
Score: 8 (12 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 17:30
11. Posted by RobLACal. | July 7, 2007 6:16 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
"Why pretend to not understand?"
Everybody understands the democrat party are Criminal Frauds, especially the democrats.
11. Posted by RobLACal. | July 7, 2007 6:16 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 18:16
12. Posted by Linoge![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 6:27 PM | Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Why pretend that a group of musicians - people who get paid to do what most people do for fun, and people who, by and large, have little to no education under their belts (a stereotype, I know, but still) - getting together and banging their instrumetns is going to do a bloody thing for the environment?
Especially since they paid so much in terms of fuel, time, energy, and just basic money to get there? Could that fuel, time, energy, and money not been better direct towards actually useful programs like alternate energy sources, or planting trees, or building a garden?
Yeah, I thought so too.
12. Posted by Linoge![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 6:27 PM |
Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 18:27
13. Posted by MikeSC | July 7, 2007 6:50 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
I'd personally love to see how this soiree ends up being carbon-neutral.
-=Mike
13. Posted by MikeSC | July 7, 2007 6:50 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 18:50
14. Posted by RicardoVerde | July 7, 2007 6:56 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
If carbon footprints really had an effect on the environment then I would get upset too.
Tibetan monks write prayers on little wheels that spin. Maybe we could print little Kyotos and do likewise. We might feel as good without all the hub bub.
14. Posted by RicardoVerde | July 7, 2007 6:56 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 18:56
15. Posted by pudge | July 7, 2007 7:26 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
1950s commie:"Viva Catsro!"
1960s commie:"Make love,not war!(Come on Doddsy! Hold onto your half of the waitress!)"
1970s commie:"Please vote for me,I'm John Kerry."
1980s commie:"Ronny 'RayGuns' will kill us all man!."
1990s commie:"Please vote for us,we're the Clintons."
Modern commie:"Hey,put on your Che Guevara shirt and lets burn an effigy of the troops,then we'll take Teresas' Hummer down to the 'Live Earth' concert. Man,I sure hate rightwing nuts,like Bush,don't you?"
Interesting,four out of six commies are actually John Kerry himself.
15. Posted by pudge | July 7, 2007 7:26 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 19:26
16. Posted by Rovin | July 7, 2007 7:26 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I'm part of the production of our local Blues by the Bay concert coming up next Sat&Sun as the talent liaison. Canned Heat, Big Brother & the Holding Co. Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop to name a few will be here for the weekend. Our policy is to attempt to keep politics out of the conversation and provide a good show. After a few years at it, most of the older entertainers just want to play their music.
I'm sure the ego's at the "Gore-bah-thon" have different agendas.
16. Posted by Rovin | July 7, 2007 7:26 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 19:26
17. Posted by gozorak | July 7, 2007 7:45 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Thankfully no metal band of significance is performing at this gig. And no Metallica no longer qualifies in my book.
17. Posted by gozorak | July 7, 2007 7:45 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 19:45
18. Posted by hermie | July 7, 2007 8:12 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Compact Fluros have mercury in them, making them a hazard to the environment, which these nutjobs profess that they want to protect.
18. Posted by hermie | July 7, 2007 8:12 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 20:12
19. Posted by glenn | July 7, 2007 8:50 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Child of Baby Boomer stands revealed as the same hypocritical jerk his/her parents were 30-40 years ago.
19. Posted by glenn | July 7, 2007 8:50 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 20:50
20. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 8:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Viewing the responses to your post Kim, I found this one interesting: not for topic, but for demographic honesty.
"Thankfully no metal band of significance is performing at this gig. And no Metallica no longer qualifies in my book.
Posted by gozorak | July 7, 2007 7:45 PM | Score: 0"
gozorak,
Don't know if we agree or not on politics, but I salute your honest opinion of the lame louge entertainment.
20. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 8:54 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 20:54
21. Posted by pgg | July 7, 2007 9:10 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Don't you understand?
With the "settled science" collapsing all around them the Gore-acle and his minions have now turned to super events like Live Earth in order to generate enough carbon footprint to create the global warming they're trying so hard to stop!
21. Posted by pgg | July 7, 2007 9:10 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:10
22. Posted by Mitchell | July 7, 2007 9:21 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Live report from one of the Live Earth sites showed no recycling bins, only trash cans.
Typical two faced libs.
22. Posted by Mitchell | July 7, 2007 9:21 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:21
23. Posted by Peter F. | July 7, 2007 9:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"hypocrisy....it goes to 11"
23. Posted by Peter F. | July 7, 2007 9:24 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:24
24. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 9:29 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Child of Baby Boomer stands revealed as the same hypocritical jerk his/her parents were 30-40 years ago.
Posted by glenn | July 7, 2007 8:50 PM | Score: 0
Glenn gets best supporting HONEST critic of the Live Hypocrite band fest.
So far we have awarded:
No Talent
No Guilt
Stay tuned...
Coming up:
The Gullible Idiots
Carbon Credits WILL get you that loan!
24. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 9:29 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:29
25. Posted by xray | July 7, 2007 9:41 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
It might be carbon neutral if we cut them all up and make some fertilizer for the trees.
25. Posted by xray | July 7, 2007 9:41 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:41
26. Posted by Robin Roberts | July 7, 2007 9:53 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
There will be a heavy metal version of teh event, it will be called "Bang Your Head For Global Warming".
26. Posted by Robin Roberts | July 7, 2007 9:53 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 21:53
27. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:15 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
And don't forget the overcrowded emergency rooms from all the musicians and attendees patting themselves on the back for being such good people.
Expect to hear calls for socialized medicine if some legend in his/her own mind can't get in within 30 seconds.
27. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:15 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:15
28. Posted by nogo war | July 7, 2007 10:19 PM | Score: -18 (20 votes cast)
There will be noise from the left about Fred Thompson being a fraud for being a hired gun for a pro-abortion group
"Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year.
His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W. Bush to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics that received federal money, according to the records and to people who worked on the matter.
The abortion "gag rule" was then a major political flashpoint. Lobbying against the rule would have placed Thompson at odds with the antiabortion movement that he is now trying to rally behind his expected declaration of a presidential bid."
I don't think this exhibits fraud on the level of Live Earth...after all Fred was a lobbyist..he did not care who he represented or even agree...as long as he was paid..he did not have to agree
28. Posted by nogo war | July 7, 2007 10:19 PM |
Score: -18 (20 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:19
29. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:22 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Where's your link, Nogo? You don't expect us to believe this just based on your word, do you?
29. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:22 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:22
30. Posted by Robin Roberts | July 7, 2007 10:27 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Nogo war, Jesus hates thread hijackers.
30. Posted by Robin Roberts | July 7, 2007 10:27 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:27
31. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 10:28 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Hey Nogo
Post over there at Blue like I am. Your drive by remark is so predictable.
31. Posted by HughS | July 7, 2007 10:28 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:28
32. Posted by Jo | July 7, 2007 10:34 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
OMG, they're interviewing Cameron Diaz now on the Live Earth show. You ought to hear how idiotic she comes across talking about the (gasp) "climate crisis."
Oh how I wish I could be there and ask her, "Hey Cameron, is rape legal yet?" You know, cuz that's what she said would happen if people didn't vote (for Kerry) in 2004.
Bwhahahaahahahah.....you can't make this stuff up.
32. Posted by Jo | July 7, 2007 10:34 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:34
33. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:34 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Ahh, I apologize to everyone for offering to let him continue the hijacking.
Nogo, disregard previous request... which you were probably gonna do anyway. -LOL-
33. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 10:34 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 22:34
34. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 11:04 PM | Score: -16 (16 votes cast)
Here's the article about 'fraid Thompson:
Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says
"A spokesman for the GOP presidential hopeful says he did no such work. An ex-colleague calls the denial 'bizarre.'"
[ . . . ]
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson7jul07,0,54260.story?coll=la-politics-campaign
34. Posted by Adrian Browne | July 7, 2007 11:04 PM |
Score: -16 (16 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 23:04
35. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 11:11 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Adrian, thank you for the link, but as you see above, I rescinded my request in order to avoid further hijacking of this thread.
You are welcome to find a thread that is more relevant to Fred's campaign, either here or on my own blog, and I'll be happy to discuss it with you there.
35. Posted by C-C-G![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| July 7, 2007 11:11 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 23:11
36. Posted by jaymaster | July 7, 2007 11:28 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Its OK for the elite to "sin", because its for the greater good of us all.
36. Posted by jaymaster | July 7, 2007 11:28 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 23:28
37. Posted by nogo war | July 7, 2007 11:31 PM | Score: -14 (14 votes cast)
Forget this "hoopla" a couple of simple questions..how is the weather in the place you have lived for a long time? Do you really believe there is no connection between climate and what our cars/industry do to our fragile atmosphere?
In watching this I have seen where they give simple ways to reduce consumption...what is your objection to less oil/coal consumption..
37. Posted by nogo war | July 7, 2007 11:31 PM |
Score: -14 (14 votes cast)
Posted on July 7, 2007 23:31
38. Posted by