How the fuck will Live Earth save the planet?

The Rev. and the lovely Miss Judes are watching the "Live Earth" thing today and it just doesn't add up to me. 
Here's why:
1. We are watching performances by people that get driven everywhere in limos and who each own multiple  SUVs and private jets.  I want fucking Kanye West and freaking Madonna to take the same stupid test I took on the Live Earth Website to see how deep THEIR carbon-footprints are and tell us exactly how much their lifestyles cost the planet!
2. The amount of materials, electricity and fuel used to create a concert that was held and broadcast all around the world must have been astronomical.
3.  How did all the attendees get to the shows?  Are you going to tell me they bicycled, walked and Roller-bladed to the Meadowlands or to Wembly?
3.  How many plastic, paper and aluminum products did those attendees consume that day while drinking beer and eating chili dogs?
4.  They keep asking us to pledge on their web site.  Pledge to what?  Is there some eco-faeries that we need to subsidize so they can keep the planet clean?  Please explain this to me!  Oh wait here it is...pledge to buy the Global Warming Survival Guide.  Riddle me this - if we are in so much trouble, shouldn't it be free on-line so we can save paper? 

I'm not being an Eco-Grinch and I'm not alone in this opinion.  Several high profile musicians agree! To quote Roger Daltry "...the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert..." And isn't it so convenient this is all coming together the year before elections? Is there's something your not telling us Mr. Gore?

Here's the gospel folks.  The truth is we are on a finitely sustainable planet.  We may be able to put off the inevitable for a few generations - 10, 100, 1000 whatever  - that is unless we find new ways to make light-bulbs light, blenders blend and  automobiles  motor.  You can talk about  conservation all you want but if you have one 8 oz. glass of water to last  you through a walk through the Sahara desert, I don't care how small the sips you take are - you're still pretty fucking screwed.

We've been fucking with solar power and bio - fuels for years.  Hybrid and electric cars.  Local grown food and beverages are available.  You can buy your clothes from all local manufacturers. The real problem is we aren't buying these things.  Not because they aren't on the market, but because they are expensive and hard to find or utilize.   That's why we sit in our apartments with the AC on, watching Sting on Live Earth, wearing Nikes made in Korea, on TVs made in China.  Then
we go out to dinner and order a fine French cheese plate to start, a bottle of water from the Alps,  Chilean Sea Bass with Peruvian blue potatoes and an endive  salad grown 5000 miles away for a main dish and finally wash it down with Italian wine. For desert we have a Belgian chocolate truffle and a hot cup of  Sumatran dark roast.

So I'm not saying not to conserve - if it's me in that desert you know I 'll be  taking very small sips  of that 8oz. glass of H2O but really now - you want the small time we are destined to last in the grand scope of things to last a second more?  Well it's not about saving - it's about different.  Now here's where I'm going to be a nihilist.  If you think GM, GE, BP, LG, IBM, and every other company in the world will start using solar power, manufacturing locally in the countries they sell to, start conserving paper and wood and coal, and start creating cars that run on hydrogen - well then you all are fucking crazy.  That being said - you should still walk more, buy local and turn off the damn light if you're not using it - I want that glass of water to last as long as fucking possible. 

A(sad but true)Men

Comments

[cynic]

one question remains un answered what did al gore do for the climate when he was in the goverment?

[The Rev.]

Good one.

[fakker]

Your favourite NY Times journalist was there.

[a.murkin]

I went to the Live Earth mini-concert in DC. I was rather irked that Starbucks took the opportunity to issue free sampler cups of Raspberry Frappuchino. a. because I'm lactose intolerant and b. the number of tiny plastic cups and straws filling up the garbage cans.

[chris lee]

a.murkin..I thought you had written "lacoste" intolerant. Which would have been very funny.