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20070708 : 6:47 PM
if you're asking, no, i didn't watch Live Earth. if you're asking why, here's why: one. Cosfest. duh. i have a damn booth to take care of, i can't possibly watch tv. two. does Live Earth actually help? i mean, it's to create awareness of the climate crisis Earth is facing, correctó? but, see, how does a 24-hour concert featuring celebrities and hotshots going to create awareness? do people actually understand the message the organizers are trying to put across? enviromentalists have been trying to make the masses see that Earth is in need of help before it's too late, but i didn't see anyone trying to really make an effort to save Earth besides them, until this whole Live Earth came about, and suddenly everyone's like, GO GREEN. but do they know why GO GREEN? the purpose of Live Earth is to allow audiences to realize that we need to start making an effort to conserve and protect Earth, but i don't see how it's going to help, really. as Sam's blog mentioned, "how [is] the garbage left in all the stadiums and concert arenas, all the electricity used up to fuel this 24 hour gig, how the non-recyclable equipment used in the gigs, how the millions of dollars spent in the worldwide telecast, GOING TO FUCKING SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD"? people all around the world who can't make it to the concerts will probably stay glued to their tellys. and oh guess what? all those people aren't going to sit around with just their tellys, oh no. they have to have the basic comforts, like lights so they don't go blind or whatever, and air-conditioning! a must-have for a person in modern society. and they'll turn it to full blast, with their apparently electricity-saving lightbulbs and their snazzy plasmas/LCD tellys, and tell me, if every single fan of whatever celebrity appearing at Live Earth did this, how much energy and electricity would have been consumed within 24 hours? and this isn't even taking place in just a nation, but worldwide. how much of the Earth's resources would have been wasted for a single 24-hour concert, which ironically is meant to raise awareness of the crisis? as for the celebrities who participated in Live Earth themselves, do they actually know the greater purpose of this besides their stage performance? or is this just another notch they can add to their list of achievements and say in future "oh i did Live Earth, helped save the earth yeah"? did they put their heart and soul into their performance? does it take an international 24-hour concert to make people realize that Earth is in danger? does it take a mass-gathering of celebrities to make people realize that they should start conserving energy and such? what about the previous efforts of environmentalists, the predictions and estimations of scientists in the past, who had warned that such a day might come, that man might singlehandedly destroy Earth because of our lack of regard for the environment? why did no one actually heed them? and even after Live Earth, will people stick the message in their minds or just toss them out once it's over? do the audiences actually understand what Live Earth is all about? today, you might say, GO GREEN, SAVE EARTH, blahblah, but, tomorrow, when you wake up in your air-conditioned rooms, when you leave the tap running when you brush your teeth, when you casually toss wrappers out the car windows, when you get onto a carbon-monoxide-producing vehicle to get somewhere you could have reached in 15 min by walking, will you remember? |
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