Tao’s 2 Cents

I didn’t get to watch any of the Live Earth concerts but I have read several articles about it and I’m pissed off. Every single article focused on how hypocritical it is to use all of that energy to promote energy conservation. It’s not as if any other concert has ever been that conscious about it and tried to lower its impact so completely. I mean, can a newspaper never write about deforestation because it’s printed on paper? Sometimes the message has to be put through the same channels you’re trying to improve.

The relatively insignificant amount of energy that was used for the Live Earth concerts helped spread the message to a much larger crowd. I can tell you from living in a third world country for some time this was probably the first time many people around the world had heard of the problem that the planet is facing. The critics also fail to take into account in their energy calculations the amount of energy that will be saved by people affected by the message. As I understand it there were booths everywhere selling fluorescent lights and other energy saving appliances. Each light bulb saves a pile of coal as tall as me. Sell a 100 light bulbs and you’ve probably canceled the Live Earth concert’s carbon footprint.

It’s so disappointing to me that the media instead of using this opportunity to write and promote this cause would try to attack it. Is it so hard for people to understand that we’re all in this together? Even if you didn’t believe in global warming it seems that everyone should be against being wasteful at the very least.

I have no idea how effective concerts are at spreading messages. Whether people came just for the music or not I think that this issue is so important that we should be trying everything method we can think of to get its importance across. I personally don’t want to be known as the generation that continued to ignore the worlds problems. That’s assuming there are future generations to think poorly of us. I think all of these critical journalists are simply jealous that there people out there actively trying to make the world a better place. I imagine many of them went into journalism to make a difference and have since been disillusioned as they slowly became mouth pieces for Rupert Murdoch.

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