Posted on 08/26/2014 6:38:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
This week, 68,000 revelers will descend on Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert. (That is, assuming the rain lets up.)
They will travel from Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Mexico City and places you've never heard of. They will take part in the temporary city that is Burning Man, and will light a giant wooden man aflame.
Despite all of this, Burning Man has somehow gotten a reputation as a "green" event. But that is simply not the case. Make no mistake: Burning Man is bad for the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
Mr. Marm is staying home. Waaaaaaaaay too hot - and expensive, too. We’ve had discussions since April about who should go and who should stay - most of the over 45s opted out! We’ve rented a small rv for the troupe - most of them are young people who I hope can deal with the extreme temperatures. I wish could be there, though - I’m following it on FB.
I haven’t been to “Burning Man” but have visited enough music and art festivals filled with stoned, half-naked hippies twirling around endlessly as they “express themselves.”
I’ve come to the conclusion - they are ALL the same.
Its been the avant garde thing - for the last 50 years.....
The BTUs-per-cubic-foot was useless for commercial/industrial applications.
I just did a week of volunteer work with a friend of mine. We work annually at a camp for handicapped kids and have been working together there for the last 35 years.
She just turned 60 and left camp a day early to head to her first Burning Man festival. One of my many old hippie friends, she'll fit in well there.
It's happening on Friday of this week!
Again, there are truly gifted artists there - most of Burning Man seems to involve art installations. Not everyone out there is an old hippie. My husband’s company is a 70 year old avant garde theater group - I’m not sure how they will perform given that most of the events there are visually oriented. His company is also very visual but essentially theatrical in nature - with strong scripts. Well, undoubtedly, will get reports.
My sister in law and her husband are there .
Yeah , well college football starts Saturday . We’re not going anywhere . GO HUSKERS !
That looks interesting.
Actually, it starts Thursday - Rutgers vs. Washington State - Go RU!!
>>Again, there are truly gifted artists there - most of Burning Man seems to involve art installations.
Burning Man is not about the art any longer, it’s about all day, all night rave clubs with a nice daily dust storm recess to catch up on sleep. The music is intense and incessant and if you don’t like techno and electronica rave music, better find a nice creek in the mountains to camp next to. The 360 degree neon panorama from the mile diameter no man’s land is as good as 10 Las Vegas strips. The engineering and planning that goes into the art cars and other constructions could power any Skunk Works on the planet.
The Nevada police presence is strong- no overt drug taking, no sexual licentiousness outside in public view. Drive too fast or have an equipment failure and you get drug dogs crawling through your Winnebago.
If you liked to start fires as a kid, this is your homecoming. The various burns are spectacular and the fireworks are world class. The laser art is very good, the participatory events show more imagination than the entire intellectual output of the Hoover Institute, and the sense of play and humor is something conservatives desperately need a theory of.
Although the rules are that you pack out what you packed in, a lot of large object trash (couches, rugs, lumber) is left behind to be picked up by the BM cleanup crew, including mountains of abandoned bicycles which provided me a nice rock hopper upgrade last year. But it all gets picked up, everything within a 3 mile circle is swept by crews walking shoulder to shoulder. It’s a great event to do once, but for many, including my building contractor cousin, it’s become a way of life.
Thanks for the info .
What utter morons. My brush pile burning during burning season produces WAY more than that does, trust me. I’m good for about 15-20 piles a season.
It’s the fire and heat generated is all - considering that the mayor banned beach fires because it’d add to globul warming is ludicrous.
what the hell is burning man?? i remove the question, i don’t think i really give a damn.
Black Rock is a really cool place...but not in the rain.
I was there for a High Power Rocketry launch back 15 years ago.
Its easy to get stuck in the mud even when its not raining.
The author is not clear about exactly what harm he's talking about except that the thing puts more carbon dioxide into the air than the average American does, which, since these aren't average Americans or even Americans at all in many cases, is a completely fallacious comparison.
All told, Burning Man 2006 pumped out 27,492 tons of greenhouse gases. Eighty-seven percent of that was from travel to and from Black Rock City, while the actual burning man was responsible for 112 tons.
So it's actually the travel and not the event? And so people shouldn't travel or the environment is mortally wounded? Oh, please. Moreover, does the actual Burning Man even weigh 112 tons? And if not, where is all that eeeevil CO2 coming from?
Really, this sort of finger-shaking grew tiresome a couple of decades ago. If the author were in the least concerned about reducing carbon footprint, he wouldn't be residing in LA.
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