Save the World With a Song
Imagine Musicians could save the world through bloviation
Its easy if you try
Were you aware that there is this thing called global warming? Apparently the earth is getting hotter and its our fault (mankind's that is) and we only have ten years to live, or ten years to stop it, or ten years to sign a treaty before it starts getting colder again or something. Maybe I am confused. Maybe I need a concert to raise my awareness.
Well, don't worry. If you don't know about global warming, nothing raises awareness like musicians having a concert. You know, youngsters with a talent for song who in most cases probably made D's in chemistry and biology will educate you on the threats to the climate produced by global warming and all the ways you can do your part in reducing your carbon footprint. LIke, using less energy, for example using lower wattage lighting. Like traveling less. And these musicians will have some million dollar light shows, I mean just killer lights and lasers that will help raise your awareness of this problem. Oh, and they'll log 222,623.63 miles flying in planes to make it to their concert sites in the worst polluting vehicles known to man: jumbo jets and even worse: private lear jets. Hey, nothing raises awareness like hypocrisy.
Seriously though, how much vanity is involved here. You have to be def, dumb or blind not to be "aware" of global warming. We've been hearing about global warming for the better part of 20 years. There was this movie, An Inconvenient Truth, about it that won an Oscar, by a frickin US vice president and presidential nominee. Just about every teacher in the western world tries to indoctrinate the children to the supposed threat of global warming. If you are skeptical of the causes, never mind the phenomenon itself, then a bunch of dipsh*t musicians ain't going to change your mind. I mean the idea that we need a world wide concert to "raise awareness" particularly one that is going to spend a HUGE amount of CO2 producing energy is shear obnoxious hubris.
Live Earth is a demented joke.