Well, last night we were watching the Daily Show on Comedy Central, and he was doing a bit about that awareness concert Al Gore held a month ago. As soon as they started talking about it, I had my brother pause it (it was on DVR).
"Did they use solar energy?" I inquired, seeing as the concert was for environmental awareness to, you know, stop the global warming that Al Gore makes bigger than it is.
"Psh, no," Says my dear father.
"WHAT? But doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of an environmental awareness concert??"
"Yes," He went on to elaborate that one of the singers required five rooms for her and her entourage, and had to have a specific beluga whale caviar, which, as you know, is an endangered species. What is wrong with these people??
I went on to research it a bit more.
"For an event that is designed to raise the awareness necessary to curb global warming and other environmental problems, why would you put on a massive, multi-continent concert where tremendous amounts of electricity and oil were needed to both transport stars to all the locations and then allow them to perform their lavish acts. "- Opey's Oratory (internet blog)
""In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people,” Al Gore said in a statement. “The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement.”"-Al Gore
Yeah, more like "In order to solve the climate crisis, we're going to use up so much electricity that no one else can. What a great solution! I'm a genius! Let's go have some beluga whale caviar in my hypocritical Hummer!"
This concert was a sad loss of message. If Al Gore really wanted to raise awareness, why not set a good example? You know, like practice what you preach. Don't tell us that we need to worry about the effect humans have on global warming because of their extensive use of oil and electricity when you can organize a world wide concert that uses so much energy itself.
London had it right, they used 100% biodiesel fuel to run their concert. New York used a nearby wind farm to fuel it, but a couple of good things doesn't wash out the bad. This concert was a waste of time and resources.
Sorry. I needed to rant about that. I should probably go eat breakfast, but nothing sounds good. Stupid Joys Of Womanhood… keeping me up all night…