Forget carbon offset – Live Earth’s artists were thinking only of guilt offset,
JOHNNY DEE: First Post
Al Gore talked about Saturday's TV coverage of the Live Earth concerts being a tipping point, the moment when two billion viewers around the world woke up to climate change being a reality. I wonder how many of those two billion tipped the other way and began burning tyres and deliberately putting newspapers in with their normal rubbish?
My personal tipping point arrived during Jonathan Ross's interview with the Pussycat Dolls. They discussed "giving back" and explained that if one person uses Philips light bulbs they can change the world - "it's really amazing". Yes it is.
It was at this moment that it became all too apparent that these mega 'issue' concerts have absolutely no point to them whatsoever any more.
Live Aid had an urgent purpose (to raise money for people who were dying). Live Earth's purpose was to tell us something we already knew. Worse, it failed as both an entertainment spectacle and a political statement - it was boring, disorganised and flat.
If we need the Pussycat Dolls to alert us to the benefits of long-life light bulbs, then frankly we're doomed already.
- dr. adder
- Newtownabbey, Ireland
- "You wanna know what's wrong with religion? Religion is supposed to be about people being nice to each other, but frankly I don't see a lot of that. You know what I do see is, I see, a lot of people using the good book to say that they're morally superior. I see people building TV stations to bilk grandma out of her pension checks, all in the name of God. How about all those God-fearing people who are killing other God-fearing people because they don't fear God the same way?" - Dr. John Becker