Microsoft Network has been peddling the "Live Earth" concert for a week now, complete with online sponsorship from Chevrolet. CAFE standards are in the news. "Global warming" is morphing into the catchall "Climate Change" category, as author Michael Crichton had predicted it would. Movers and shakers vow to keep the message alive.
Apropos of all the hoopla for the upcoming concerts and the fortieth anniversary of the "Summer of Love," Cassandra summed up perfectly, in the arched-eyebrow tone of which she is the winsome exemplar:
...decades of human experience have taught us that there is virtually no pressing social or economic problem that cannot be solved by a three day rock concert and some really prime weed
FWIW, my carbon footprint is smaller than the U.S. average. The event itself? Not so much. Love that "this is what happens when you let hippies organise a big event" quote, delivered after the fact. See also this editorial asking (rightly) about whether "Live Earth" was the largest in-kind political contribution ever.
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Ah, yes, the leading intellectual lights of civilization---rock stars and politicians.I guess it is culturally impolite to ask what kind of 'carbon footprint' the concert is going to generate.
Bad me! Bad me!
Good them! Good them! :)
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