And A Grateful Planet Says Thanks!

Sky News: “Singer Bette Midler Quits Touring To Help Save The Planet.”

Glad to see that at least one celebrity has taken my advice after Al Gore’s Live Earth concert last year:

I wouldn’t have as much of a problem with Live Earth if it really were The Last Rock Concert by those who participated in it. It takes an enormous amount of cognitive dissonance to simultaneously believe that the planet’s ecosphere is soon to be doomed, but the solution is a blowout concert in two different football stadiums.

As Daltry told the The Sun, “I can’t believe it. Let’s burn even more fuel”. Each concert will require massive transportation efforts involving jet planes and tractor-trailers, hundreds of thousands of watts of electricity to power the lighting and sound gear, and the deforestation required to print at least couple of hundred thousand souvenir programs (and many more no doubt, for sale afterwards). And heck, just think of all of the methane emissions coming from the stadiums’ rest rooms, where, no matter how much the audience promises, the Sheryl Crow Rule is incredibly difficult to enforce.

But in the minds of its participants, a cause like Live Earth is worth it. But a generic, everyday, run of the mill concert shouldn’t be. So go out with a bang, rock stars–and then, don’t be hypocritical puritans; take the sort of pledge that even the Goracle won’t.

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