Posted on 07/08/2007 6:39:44 AM PDT by indcons
WASHINGTON - One of the many bands that passed through the Live Earth stages around the world Saturday put it best.
“It’s not really important what goes on here tonight, but what happens in the future,” said Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy, who appeared in the New York concert.
For many who participated - as performers or spectators at the massive global music event - it was an inspiring night, perhaps the biggest concert broadcast in history, all dedicated to confronting what organizer Al Gore has called “the greatest threat mankind has ever faced.”
Saturday’s musicians were committed to changing that dynamic, but entertainers as a group have a spotty track record in forcing the body politic into change. Just look at the results of recent US presidential elections, where the entertainment business came down firmly on the side of the centre-left Democrats in 2004, only for George Bush to win a majority.
But Live Earth could be different.
The campaign to raise awareness about the dangers and causes of global warming has already gathered significant momentum. Only the most committed ideologues still dispute scientific evidence pointing to human activity as the cause of the climate threat, and children the world over re as focused on the environment as their parents were on the space race.
The sights and sounds of well-known personalities lending their voices to the cause may embolden people to take the actions demanded by the seven-point pledge offered up from organizers for all participants to sign.
“I think it’s cool that so many people are coming together to support this,” said Ellen Sanchez, 14, who watched the concerts at a big screen erected for the occasion in San Francisco. “It definitely focuses attention on the problem. We can’t ignore it any longer.”
Others already see the mega-gig as just the latest round of unwanted celebrity preaching.
That was certainly the attitude of critics who called Live Earth ”concerts for guilty stars.” They pointed out that many performances had flown to the shows in private jets, and asked how the massive productions with their huge carbon footprints could really benefit the cause. ‘All are guilty’
Perhaps the answer was at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, where some 700,000 people attended a free concert where actress and kid’s show host Xuxa framed the issue: “We are all guilty. We waste paper, water, energy and many other things. ... It is not just for Americans. This is a concert for the whole world.”
Or maybe it was in the Netherlands, where thousands gathered by bicycle in an Amsterdam square to watch the shows being broadcast from other countries and hear ideas about how to save energy.
Africa, the underdeveloped continent with the least global-warming emissions but some of the worst potential effects, hosted a concert in Johannesburg. And the Shanghai concert carried great symbolism, as China continues to boom its way toward becoming one of the world’s biggest polluters.
The concerts certainly raised environmental awareness to a new level. Seen by a projected 2 billion people, the concerts featured environmental messages flashing behind the stages. Commercial breaks were filled with infomercials about the cause.
But the greatest benefit could come from the seven-point pledge organizers asked people to sign to limit their own pollution. The pledge calls on governments to sign meaningful treaties to reduce carbon emissions by 90 per cent by the year 2050, and to enact strict limits on coal-burning power stations.
“I’m so proud to be a part of it today, because it’s not about the problem. It’s more about the solution,” said songstress Alicia Keys at the New York show. “So I want you to make that pledge. I’m making the pledge, and I want you to make that pledge right now.”
Simple enough answer - NOPE
Count me in.
Algore has found a very creative way to make money and run a subversive campaign for his Presidency.
Ignorance en masse is an amazing sight to behold; but a frightening spectacle as well.
Great. So I assume these same folks will support the construction of additional nuclear power plants?
I think that would be grandparents.
This whole global warming crusade is nothing more than a pathetic attempt by an even more pathetic individual to gain some relevancy. He could care less about the environment, his hypocrisy is testament to that. Huge energy guzzling mansion, big SUV’s etc. speak louder than words. He’s as worthless as tits on a boar hog.
Unfortunately the hard-of-thinking half of this country’s population embrace him as some kind of savior of the planet.
What is “Live Earth”?
In a way, this reminds me of all that Live Aid stuff from ages ago when caring about starving people in Africa was all the rage. Hopefully this’ll pass just like that previous feel-good fad.
Algore’s publicity stunt involving a bunch of non-carbon offsetted, energy-consuming concerts. Apparently, the singers logged hundreds of thousands of miles in private jets to “call attention to excessive use of fossil fuels and global warming.”
Go figure.
>>>actress and kid’s show host Xuxa framed the issue: “We are all guilty. We waste paper, water, energy and many other things. ... It is not just for Americans. This is a concert for the whole world.”
Back in the day she was a notch on JFK Jr’s bedpost. I wonder if she ever suggested to him that private planes were ecologically irresponsible.
She also asked everyone to buy her massed produced, plastic CD and waste electricity playing it.
Al Gore isn’t going to be President. He may not even become a candidate.
Why?
The Fates crashed together in the form of his son being arrested just a couple of days before he was to take center stage in a world wide spectacle. For him to forgo the tending of a son in need, no matter his age, just to posture on stage will haunt him for the rest of his public life. To pigeon hole the inquiries concerning his son with that sanctimonious response on the Larry King program, “We’re treating this as a private matter”, isn’t going to fly in the long run.
Al Gore’s pathological narcissism set off a collective wince in millions of parents who know what a loving parent’s reaction should have been. Whether that feeling will be given a public voice or not, the visceral reaction to him “hugging” the planet and not being able to hug a hurting son will be his mark of shame to bear. It is not unlike Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick. He will be tolerated up to a certain level but never, never beyond that.
It is difficult to say, but If Tipper, back in the Eighties, had devoted more time to rearing her own family and not being the national nanny pontificating on what is permissible for kids to read, listen to, and to see, the son may have made better choices in his life.
From the son’s perspective, why should he make a decision to live a life of sobriety when his father lives in a world populated with druggies and reprobates? It is not what you say to your kids, but more what they see you doing.
1. Great music! Best of any *live* concert in recent memory.
2. Lots of beautiful people in the audiences.
3. Lots of good energy saving and practical cleanliness suggestions.
Fact is, my Wife and I have been practicing most of these things for many years. Not, to save the earth necessarily but, to save money and provide a good example for our children. (they have since thanked us)
If it helped a few ignorant, un-parented slobs become better people, it’s was worth the effort.
If this guy were speaking of terrorism he'd probably put "threat" in quotes.
But what's most striking about his statement and a thousand others like it is what obvious propaganda it is. The global warming movement is just one giant public-opinion manipulation machine. They repeat their claims over and over again as though the issue were completely settled while knowing full well that the debate rages. Global warming has exposed the left's true feelings about debate and dissent.
I would love to be a fly on the wall and listen in to the conversations of the movement's elite core. It would be interesting to know if they see global warming as a thing-in-itself or as just a tool to accomplish the classical leftist ends of making life difficult for the corporations and global capitalism and imperialist-capitalist America. My guess is that it's a mixture of both, but I'll bet that as you move upward towards the elite of the movement's elite, you'll find less environmental idealism and more bareknuckle ideological leftism.
Just like Bill Clinton raised awareness of appropriate Executive/Subordinate sexual conduct in the workplace, huh?
Only the most committed ideologues still dispute scientific evidence pointing to human activity as the cause of the climate threat
There's no scientific evidence pointing to significant anthropic global warming. For example, CO2 doesn't lead/cause temperature change it lags/follows temperature change. The largest green house gas is water vapor. It's nineteen times more abundant than CO2. Water vapor is 95% of total global warming gas.
“I’m so proud to be a part of it today, because it’s not about the problem. It’s more about the solution,” said songstress Alicia Keys
The problem is that certain people have fabricated a problem that need not exist in the first place. There's massive amounts of resources being wasted on a non problem. And it's costing virtually everyone in higher prices and lower standard of living. Imagine if all those unnecessary wasted resources were used to solve real existing problems. The anthropic global warming hoax is but one of many fabricated problems the parasitical elite foist on an unsuspecting public.
When the music stops, will Live Earth matter?Only if silliness matters.
Just another opportunity for the MSM and their devil worshippers to show their butts and bosoms under the guise of being the only salvation left for an ungodly world already doomed to a judgement of fire by a Holy God!
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Nope and neither will any of these idiots.
Has anyone ever read Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaiden’s Tale”? In it Christianity is used to warp society and enslave people. I had a class which read it and argued that anything could be used in place of the story’s Christianity. People looked at me like they were confused, which makes sense because they were most all college students.
Anyway, I see similarities between Atwood’s religious leaders in that novel and Algore and his secular church of the environment.
I wonder how many of the people that didn’t believe me in that class buy into Algore’s global warming BS.
Al Bore invented the Internet.
Putfile Version (Higher quality)
Since it's Al Bore's day in the spotlight, let's push these Al Gore videos up on the YouTube rankings for him. Vote for them! Mark them as favorites, and link to them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Bet’s that the only person who made money on this Boondoggle was algore??
Pray for W and Our Troops
That’s all this is. Just as Woodstock generates revenue from its past show,
alGore is doing the same thing. I realize he is living in a fantasy world, but even he
knows this Man Made Global Warming crap is just that, crapola
Doesn't he?? I could be wrong, but he couldn't be this uninformed could he?
LOL, this guy is an idiot...
Agree completely with your assessment; and I do hope you are right that millions of parents recognize his blatant narcissism - both his and Tipper's.
Someone offered that since his son's transgression occurred on a public highway; and he was carrying illegal drugs; that this matter, in no way; can be considered private.
No doubt, the MSM will take Algore's claim to heart, however.
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