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Recently a global concert, Live Earth, was put on to raise awareness of the green house gas effects on our planet. Evidently the people who put this extravaganza on were thinking one of two things. One being, "Trough these musicians we can influence people to become green. They won't litter, they'll better control their carbon footprints and the world will be better for it." Thought two might have been, "What we can do is get a bunch of bands together and then we can spin it to that global warming thing." Which, by reports coming from concert goers, thought two was most likely the leading factor in doing this show.

Evidently there was litter every where and the parking lot was a "dump," according to a friend of mine. Another friend said there was a designated smoking area but no receptacles. So everyone crushed their butts on the ground. But on a brighter note there were no trashcans but there were recycling bins. If anything actually made it into the bins is another story. I cannot honestly say what an event like that would cost energy wise, but it couldn't have been cheap. I wonder what the carbon footprint was on the concert.

I cannot believe however that promoters were thinking of anything but the good press this event would bring. Good press equals money. Money isn't a bad thing. Making it isn't a bad thing. But the City-on-a-hill type of hype was a little nauseating. Basically the people who are really interested in stopping global warming will work hard to make the world a better place, ecologically speaking. They will educate themselves. It's kind of hypocritical for multi-millionaires who jet around the globe to tell your average Joe to recycle because green house emissions are at an all time high.

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