Are the Live Earth concerts damaging the environment?

Question

Transporting equipment and spectators, flying artists around the world and burning electricity must create an awful lot of CO2.

Answer 1

Ha!

I have been arguing this exact point since I heard about the farce that is Live Earth.

So a concert about saving the planet, wasting less, using less and reducing our carbon footprints and:

- They have flown hundreds of music stars and celebs all over the world.
- They are using power for giant speakers, huge plasma screens and a vast amount of lighting.
- They then invite hundreds of thousands of people from around the world to attend, meaning even more CO2 is burnt with people driving or going by coach/train to get to these events.
- Not to mention the hundreds of millions of TV's (and lights since people will be in their living rooms) which will be switched on to watch the event.

It is achingly ridiculous. So painfully ironic - if there is an intelligent alien species watching the Live Earth events, they must be f*cking pissing themselves at how thick the human race is.

I know people who were going to the event and I openly laughed at them; but then they did laugh back at me, knowing where i was coming from.

Surely a better idea would have been to not do a venue event at all - save ALL of the CO2 from the speakers, screens, lights, travel etc and just done a TV-only event where the pop stars are in a studio, etc performing to cameras with no crowd so we can only watch via TV, radio or internet?

Or is Mr Gore clearly more astute than me on this whole "going green" issue? The ironic dumbass! They should have just cut straight to the point and called it Live Farce.

Answer 2

I have seen estimates ranging from 75,500 tons to 200,000 of CO2 caused by this concert. The truth is nobody knows, and there will be all the other pollution & incidental pollution- even a phone call to the ticket office costs CO2, a flush of the toilet after drinking at the concert costs CO2.

One thing is for sure I don't need hypocritical multiple car & house & private jet owning pop drug junkies lecturing me on the environment thanks....Especially Madonna, who now travels with a fleet of cars around her apparently, after a road rage incident against her. These green coloured conspicuous polluters can shove their message where the sun don't shine.

Answer 3

Music was good. The message was 'pants' and the whole cause is BS.

What the hell does a pop singer know about the environment anyway? They will support any thing they are told to providing they look good on TV. Should help some failing Carree's.

Nice to see Al Gore thinks he's a rock star. He will make a fortune out of this. The book, the tour and the speaking engagements. Great business to get rich.

Answer 4

You've made a very good point, and I am waiting to see the excuses people will use to justify the supposed waste. No matter what you do, you will always use fossil fuels and cause some type of damage. Environmentalists and other far-left uninformed nitwits just take this stuff too far anymore. I thought the hippies had died out; looks like the dope-smokers are back, unfortunately.

Answer 5

good point have a star, i wonder how many people walked to the concert or even if energy saving devises were used to l for the lighting and sounds
all them atrists at the concert have used more energy in one year than i have in my whole life

hypocrites the lot of them , they are doing this for fame , not one of them gives a flying one about anything other than their bank balance

Answer 6

that's an interesting question but im sure the answer is no because in most of the locations they have prohibited personal transportation for everyone to use public transportation.Live Earth- answer the call... All concerts facilities are using green power. Hell Wembley Stadium in the UKand Giants Stadium in NYC even has bins to recycle your chewing gum so it can be re used and made into new items like childrens play ground equipment. Open your eyes and see these concerts for what they really are.

Answer 7

taking into account the carbon emissions from producing the electricity not to mention the catering ,drinks cans and plastic water bottles consumed,fuel in getting the audiences there,TV live coverage and all the infrastucture of getting the pictures on our sets,advertising,paper consumed,posters TV adverts, broken equipent from chairs to mike stands thrown in the bin and sent to land fill sites,also simple things like washing of clothes for the groups /singers and specisl requirements shipped in,the list goes on and on,,,What a waste of energy just to tell the world to save energy,Hmmm Hypocracy yet again.

Answer 8

It's kind of like one example I corrected my teacher on in class last year. "I guess Global Warming could be a good thing because then we could get at all that oil underneath the ice caps." "Won't that just create more Global Warming?" "Um...I guess."

Answer 9

Hey you are not the only one who thinks so...while watching it this morning my son said exactly that...he says it is a bad example...I tend to disagree because we have to get the attention of the young...so many have no idea, the old don't but they are a lost cause,and if we can intermingle the information between artists it may just influence many to jump on he band wagon....the young are our hope and getting the message to them is paramount to the cause...so I tend to think that while it is environmentally damaging if it gets the message to only a million young, who then practise and preach, then it is worth it.

Answer 10

You poor pathetic people! Polution is everyone's problem, and so is Global Warming!