Live Earth may have been an important event and a great bunch of music; but wasn’t there a certain hypocrisy in the energy used to create the events? Matt Bellamy of the band Muse dubbed it "private jets for climate change".
It’s easy sport to take the musicians who participated to task for arriving in energy guzzling private jets, mounting massively polluting mega-tours and living excessively consuming lifestyles.
And one does wonder how many new people where actually convinced by these mega-concerts to now help save the earth from this obvious threat? Certainly no titans of industry or reigning politicians were left shaking in their boots after watching the sweaty hordes pump their fist in the air to Madonna.
Isn’t the real culprit this time actually Al Gore? For all the incredible good he’s done on global warning, it seems that he drank a bit too much of producer Kevin Wall’s kool-aide this time. Or was it a need to feel the glow of the global media spotlight again?
Gore’s cause and the earth would have been better served by a massive worldwide telethon/radiothon centered around education and fund-raising with music as the draw? Taking the cameras to existing concerts and even intimate events could have sent a more powerful message than massively polluting throngs traveling in gas guzzlers to mega-stadiums.
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