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We’ll Try To Do Right By You, Mother
An Aboriginal group kicks off the Australian leg of the Live Earth Concert in Sydney, one of nine concerts worldwide aimed at persuading people to go green. More here.
6 Responses to “We’ll Try To Do Right By You, Mother”
How does getting 50K people to get in their cars and drive to a concert help lower the carbon load. I am sure that most people at those concerts have great ideas on how other people should make sacrafices but they seem unwilling to do anything themselves.
How do rock musicians who ride around in tour buses and have an entire motorcard of semis to carrying their equipment have any credibility in lowering the carbon load. How do having rich people who own multiple homes on stage cause anyone else to want to lower the carbon load?
If you have to ask you wouldn’t understand.
In honor of the efforts of the millions of people around the world that are making Live Earth a success, I won’t waste energy trying to explain it to those who will not hear.
In politics, if you say that someone cannot understand an explanation, what is really being said, is that there is not real explanation.
I haver seen several television reports. The audience at the meadowlands looks so white, it could have been a Klan meeting. I did not hear anyone from Al Gore to the Ashley’s in the audience saying what they were willing to give up in order to lesson their carbon loading.
I guess it is really easy to sell something that 20 something’s when you ask no sacrafice on their part.
I wonder if the entire audience would be willing to give up entertainment spending for a year in order to lower their carbon load. Somehow I doubt it.
superdestroyer,
This concert, in short, is an investment. You are not going to make any gains if you don’t put any in. But instead of an investment with money here, it is an investment in awareness. They are bringing all these people together who are typically there because they are aware. They are showing each individual that is there, that is watching, the entire world that it isn’t just a few people interested in making a difference, it is a lot. It will publicize the cause, gives the message that the cause is vibrant a viable, and bring in a return in the form of a multiplication of those that are aware and will now do something to help.
And they are not asking for everyone to make a huge change in their life, this is what you need to understand. They make suggestions that persons of both great and meager means can easily achieve and have an immediate impact. They are saying spend a few more dollars to buy a few energy efficient light bulbs, not to mention turning them off when they are not needed. They are saying take the few extra minutes to check your tire pressure and adjust it. That is all and it doesn’t take much, not to mention it also has the positive side effect of 1) saving people money and 2) making people safer.
This is a very good suggestion for saving energy, but I haven’t seen it highlighted much in the global warming mega-events. Honestly, most of the events seem to be “preaching to the choir” rather than reaching out to those who are either unaware or are skeptical.
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