Hey Al, how about you and your minions globe trot with one of these. Too bad we'll miss traveling and hearing you. ROFL. Absolute dopes.
Posted on 07/07/2007 10:13:52 PM PDT by peggybac
Rock fans on Saturday shrugged off criticism of Live Earth for booking jet-setting pop stars to preach action on climate change, insisting the worldwide concerts would have a positive impact. Acts at the London leg of the 24-hour music marathon, aimed at raising awareness of global warming and pressuring politicians to enact legislation, included Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters.
But critics have suggested the performers are in danger of appearing hypocritical as they preach about climate change to crowds while themselves leaving a massive carbon footprint with their flights around the world.
Fans in the crowd at Wembley Stadium were unperturbed, with 27-year-old Neil Hanafin telling AFP that, on balance, the concert was "more of a positive thing. Raising awareness is what this whole thing is about."
Sitting next to him, 21-year-old Leanne Clarke, agreed, adding that "without this, I don't think they can do it."
The pair, wearing Live earth bandanas, said they were "quite worried about the planet" and hoped the global concerts had a similar impact to the Live 8 concerts two years ago to boost Western aid to developing countries.
Organisers hope the gigs will "make climate change sexy", according to Steve Howard, the founder of the "We're In This Together" environmental campaign.
"We hopefully will capture their hearts and minds on climate change," he told AFP, speaking of the crowds packing out stadiums around the world, and the two billion people expected to be watching on television and over the Internet.
He conceded that "yes, there has been some pollution caused by flying people in."
"But that's what we needed to do -- it was a calculated investment to say, 'We need to do this because we need to grab two billion people' rather than just me going on stage and nobody watching."
Howard said the majority of acts at the London event were either already in the city for other performances, or in the area, thereby reducing the carbon emissions from their travel.
Live Earth organiser Al Gore, former US vice president turned green campaigner, answered criticism of Live Earth's stars in British newspaper The Independent on Saturday.
"We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are," he said.
"If we simply spend our time criticising one another for where we are, that will further delay our departure for where we need to be."
Organisers of the London leg were trumpeting environmentally-friendly measures being taken at the concert.
All burger boxes at the north-west London venue have been made of sugar cane and reed pulp, making them fully biodegradable, and all grease from concession stands is to be converted into biodiesel.
Some 80 percent of the waste generated at the concert was also set to be recycled, and the use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on stage apparently led to a 50 percent reduction in energy used through lighting.
Electricity, meanwhile, was being supplied by biofuel generators, while the programmes for the London event were produced on recycled paper by a publisher using electricity garnered from renewable sources.
Elsewhere in the audience in London on Saturday, Jayme Fine, 32, said fans could take measures to compensate for the energy used at the concerts.
"People leaving their lights on at home when nobody's there is going to eat up electricity," he said.
"If we all just remember to shut those off, it's OK for us to have an event like this."
Can’t get there from here.
Has anyone in the media checked to see if Gore is still on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party? They slipped him cash at that Buddhist temple back when he was vice-president, and they were shipping grocery bags of laundered money to Billy Boy at the White House.
All evidence at the time indicated that this was a payoff for the Clinton-Gore admininstration allowing restricted military technology to be sold to China. But that may not have been all that it was. All this nonsense about global warming being man-made is designed to weaken the industrial and energy capacity of America and other Western nations. It’ll have no effect on China, because they’ll pay lip service to combatting global warming but do nothing whatsoever to comply with the environmental rules the global warming crowd want enacted. Nor will anyone demand that China follow the rules. We’ll have to follow them, but China won’t.
Oh, there may be a lone Joan Baez type who pops up and demands that China comply, but she’ll be shouted down by the more numerous Jane Fonda types who only worry about “global warming” if it’s being created by free world nations.
And yet, all the skulls full of mush in the audience nodded their heads, marveling at Gore's profound wisdom. "Oh wow, he like, speaks to my heart!"
Typical liberal /politician bullshit. What gets me is NO ONE EVER asks these morons to explain themselves. I’d hound that idiot into explaining that statement until he’d cry and admit it was double talk ./ Are there ANY real reporters out there on our side ?
It’s all part of the massive brain washing effort. EVERY school in the US shows his movie. Some kids have seen it 3 -4-5 times. It’s accepted science across the board in public education. The bottom line is that it opens up new vistas to those who wish to separate you from your money.
http://www.pr-inside.com/snow-patrol-keyboardist-arrested-r167143.htm
2007-07-08 14:50:24 -
SNOW PATROL keyboard player TOM SIMPSON was arrested on drugs charges on Saturday (7Jul07) just hours after the band performed at LIVE EARTH in London.
Simpson was taken into custody at Northolt RAF base after failing to appear in court in Scotland accused of possession of Class A substances.
A spokesperson for London’s Metropolitan Police says, “A 35-year-old man wanted on a sheriff warrant was arrested. He will remain in custody until transferred.”
People will want to swelter in the heat if it saves the planet. They will freeze before they burn one tree. They won’t eat good and plentiful food if one cow is saved. Nobody can eat animals. There are too many people on the planet. Everybody must be watched and monitored.
THIS IS TODAY. RIGHT NOW HERE IN THE U.S.A.
Al Gore is Adolph Hitler and he wants to rule the world.
Sheryl Crow donated the paper.
Totally agree..It’s giving the masses a common enemy ( big business, USA, capitalism) It’s pretty obvious to me . It’s controlling the sheeple.
OMG you are too funny!!!!
Gore is already rich. His life's ambition is get elected President. His daddy groomed him for it. Never forget that.
Hey Al, how about you and your minions globe trot with one of these. Too bad we'll miss traveling and hearing you. ROFL. Absolute dopes.
“Gore is already rich. His life’s ambition is get elected President. His daddy groomed him for it. Never forget that.”
You have some points but I’ve never met a rich person who didn’t still like to rake it in.
When you look at the competition, Gore does have a fighting chance, though.
I used to have a hardcore greenie neighbor who felt good about himself for recycling and loved to mention his latest environmental exploits. I'm hardly nosy but it became pretty obvious on trash day that the recycler generated more garbage than anyone else on the street. Typically three to four overflowing jumbo cans from a household of one vs. the usual two cans - lids on neatly - on the curbs of families of four. Just bizarre.
Frankly I hope Gore and Hillary eat each other alive. Don't know if it will happen but it will be good if it does.
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