Live Earth, Neutral Minds
If Gore believes "global warming is a moral issue" than just how is parading the world's leading hedonists going to help win over public attitudes? It has always been a paradox that the anti-establishment 'music can change the world' generation tends to be the first to line up and parade its anti-intellectual gullibility, buying into the latest mass media 'establishment's' populist and scary propaganda. Live Earth is just the latest naive manifestation.
Even parts of the mainstream media are beginning to grasp the irony of the situation. Here's is a key excerpt from a recent piece at Reuters:
'Glitz and glamour risk making the fight against climate change sound like a passing fad championed by a bunch of hedonists'
It does indeed - not the mention the irony of hundreds of stars jetting about the world having given themselves a-moral (on their own hypothesis) CO2 passes. But then it is surely because they are more important than the rest of us? And all that's before we get to the real science which reveals warming stopped in 1998, the sun, not CO2, is responsible for that warming and we have had less than a degree of warming when, historically it was far warmer.
The above quote is taken from 'Can stars save the plant'. The answer must surely be a simple: No chance -- given they are such hypocrites who believe themselves exempt from their own strictures on CO2 emissions. (Why, for instance, not erect a giant screen and beam performances live from wherever these guys happened to be?) Imagine if Jesus Christ had preached the sermon on the mount - then gone off for a 'clandestine' weekend in Capernaum and you get the picture.
In note the criticism Live Earth has had from some rock stars including Bob Geldof and Coldplay. I also note that one of my my favourite bands, The Who, is not performing (though hardly for the best of intellectual reasons - see link - it has to be said). Won't get fooled again? If you are a subscriber to the Sucker for Propaganda Generation, apparently, you will.
Peter C Glover
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