Live Earth Concerts a Sham... Bummer



I had great hopes when I first heard about the Live Earth concert series... Then as it came closer, I realized it was really falling short of any necessary expectations. For the best reasoning, check out Kyle's take on it over at Under the Concrete. Here's a quote:

"I appreciate the increased awareness about global warming, but all these green tips, greenwashing, and green branding function to keep people in denial and, therefore, I believe they cause more harm than good; they keep people believing that nothing fundamental about the way we live on this planet has to change. We’ll follow the school into the net, all the while fully rationalizing a deeply insane lifestyle that is killing everything, including our selves."

Then read another scathing review over at The Telegraph. Another quote:

"Live Earth was at once overambitious (it had multiple objectives, both to educate and to recruit, and the result was often comically inappropriate, juxtaposing excessive rock acts such as Metallica with films about not over-filling your kettle) and not ambitious enough. The line-up was no better than an average festival. The stars were supposed to persuade the ordinary people of the urgency of the cause, but if no one could persuade the stars themselves, then it was over before it started."

Posted: Tue - July 10, 2007 at 07:24 AM           |

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