Who here is going to a Live Earth concert?

[Paddy]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070706/D8Q79QFO1.html   Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will be there. 

algore, however, is a freaking idiot. Get this quote from him

"This is going to be the greenest event of its kind, ever," Gore told The Associated Press recently. "The carbon offsets and the innovative practices that are being used to make this a green event, I think, will set the standard for years to come."

Is he actually arrogant enough to think he can quantify total carbon emissions from planet earth?  (As if human produced carbon emissions even produce global warming in the first place)

[crt360]

First I've heard of them.  So they're doing it to raise money for light bulbs?  Wooohoooo!!  And raise awareness of climate change?  Yea, that sounds like fun.    So, I guess you can light up, but you can't exhale until you purchase a carbon offset. 

[HankB]

This reminds me of the annual "Earth Day" events in Washington, when a million or more people got together to celebrate their envionmental sensitivity . . . and in the process, converted acres of park lawn to mud and left behind tons of reefer stubbs, empty paper cups, used condoms, human excrement, dirty diapers, and other assorted trash for someone else to clean up.

[Dannyboy]

Every foul smelling, treehugging hippy on the planet will be at those things.  You couldn't get me anywhere near one.  Stinky hippies and crappy music.  I'll pass, thanks.

[mountainclmbr]

I am not going because of the big, dirty carbon footprint my travel would cause (reality: it isn't worth my time even if travel and tickets were pre-paid). I clearly see the socialist goals that are not too well hidden behind the scenes. I loathe all of them for the impact their stupidity may have on my FREE life.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I was in a book store today and saw that they were selling "The Official Companion Book to the LiveEarth Concerts".  I leafed through it and found it to be a steaming pile of self-congratulatory propaganda BS.

It simply astounds me that so many people can be so stupid.  This Live Earth crap is a compelling argument against universal suffrage.

[Monkeyleg]

Well, why don't we have some Dead Earth celebrations?

[Manedwolf]

I was immediately turned off by one of the commercials XM ran for it.

They put on an old Roy Rogers radio commercial for a hat that had a capgun in it, "surprise your friends and have a real Western gun pop out" and then a cap-gun sound. And then the commentator said "Yeah, we didn't know what the consequences of that would be then, either. Live Earth, coming..."

Was like...Excuse me? What are you trying to say, there? 

[MechAg94]

Well, why don't we have some Dead Earth celebrations?

We could just have a Whatever Earth celebration. 

[Paddy]

"a massive hypocritical fraud" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=466775&in_page_id=1879

[Sergeant Bob]

From Riley's link:

A huge industry has sprung up to provide corporations with carbon credits.

However, critics say that the practice is simply a way for consumerist industries and nations to export their responsibility to developing countries. Others say it simply does not work.

Carbon-offsetting is, it turns out, how celebrities square green issues with their extravagant lifestyles and use of private jets.

Jon Bon Jovi has said: "We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah."

I hate to be cliche' (not really, it fits) but "Follow the money".

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

If you can figure out a way to separate stupid greenie celebrities from their money, then more power to you.

[Gewehr98]

Carbon Credits of 2007 = Papal Indulgences of 1517

[Perd Hapley]

Carbon Credits of 2007 = Papal Indulgences of 1517

You will all burn, heretics.   

[Manedwolf]

Can't burn. That produces CO2. 

Also, need the bang-head-on-wall icon:

Organizers promised the huge shows were made green by using recycled goods and buying carbon credits to offset the inevitable high power bills.

Critics say Live Earth lacks achievable goals, and that jet-setting rock stars whose amplifier stacks chew through power may send mixed messages about energy conservation. On her tour last year, Madonna produced an estimated 485 tons of carbon dioxide in four months, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported.

[El Tejon]

Shame on you all for missing what is really driving this . . . hippie girl nookie.

Lots of guilt-ridden, wanna be hippie girls wearing faux hippie clothing purchased with daddy's credit cards.

"Look, Amber, for the sake of the Earth, I have to do you, repeatedly."

[nico]

Carbon Credits of 2007 = Papal Indulgences of 1517

I've been thinking the same thing.

[Jamisjockey]

Wife dragged me to a Faith Hill Tim McGraw concert last night.  Faith did a great "I'm a moron" bit....except it wasn't a bit. 
"we were suppossed to do the Live Earth concert but couldn't" Read between the lines...this sold out concert is a money maker and screw live earth.....
"turn off the lights and use less gas"
"The earth is going away"
No, I'm not making this *expletive deleted*it up.  My wife's best friend found it just as comical as I did.  Wife didn't get why I was cussing and laughing.

[Sergeant Bob]

I heard them talking about turning the thermostat down 6 degrees in the winter and just wearing more clothes to stay warm, we would use millions less barrels of oil each day.

It just cracked me up. I can just see Algore and a bunch of these other environmentalist elitists all bundled up, huddling together in their mansions trying to keep warm.

[griz]

The article was so chock full of examples of hypocracy that I actually read the whole thing.  Here is a tidbit besides the comments about carbon credits:

Of course, Live Earth is doing its utmost to ensure the event is 'green' in appearance at least - stars will be ferried between the stage and dressing room by energy-efficient Smart Cars and biodiesel fuelled Mercedes.

Hmmm?  Fly your whole crew to the concert and have the star driven the last couple feet in an earth friendly car?  I figured it out.  The earth isn't warming, it just feels like it is because these folks are up to their eyeballs in warm and fuzzy feelings.

[nico]

griz, well what do you expect them to do?  walk from the dressing room to the stage?

jamisjockey: small world.  My roomate and his girlfriend were there too.

[Jamisjockey]

griz, well what do you expect them to do?  walk from the dressing room to the stage?

jamisjockey: small world.  My roomate and his girlfriend were there too.

I didn't want to go, but the wife's been on my ass about being negative....so when they said they wanted to buy tickets for Faith Hill and Tim McGraw I just shut my piehole.

[Nitrogen]

If you really believe global warming is a problem (and I hold a minority view on that topic among forum members here I bet) I get really annoyed when people tell me I can "help" by spending money, and giving other people money.

It's much easier to do that, than to actually make sacrifices like driving less, making the kids walk to school, carpooling, turning off your A/C, etc...

That would require actual WORK now wouldn't it?!

[LadySmith]

It appears folks here & in the U.K. had better things to do than watch the concert. It flopped.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/tv_nm/concert_ratings_dc_3