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  1. #11
    AuGmENTor Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Chana3812

    The Bush Administration has done many things to ignore the threat of excessive greenhouse gases. I don't feel like they are terrorising us. It's concerned citizens and celebs that are bringing attention to this matter.
    So now I need a celebrity to make me aware of something? Good Christ, if that's what it has come to, just kill us all now. Guess who is starting to sound like a 4th place winner in the special olympics now?

    Arctic Monkeys shiver at Live Earth 'hypocrisy'

    Jul 4 10:57 PM US/Eastern

    Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.


    "It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.

    "Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.

    Bass player Nick O'Malley chimes in: "And we're always jetting off on aeroplanes!"

    Large parts of the band's hometown of Sheffield were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed.

    But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change.

    "Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it's like 'who cares what we think about what's happening'?" added Helders.

    "There's more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we're in a band?"

    The group, whose first record was the fastest-selling debut album in British history, will clock up thousands of air miles -- in normal airliners not private jets, they say -- during their tour to Asia and Australia in the next few months.

    They are not the only stars to take a cynical view of Live Earth, which aims to raise awareness about global warming but which will require many longhaul flights and thousands of car journeys to and from the music venues.



    Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials -- the car-loving rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year -- and there are doubts about the ability of pop stars to galvanise the world into action.

    Bob Geldof, the architect of Live Aid and Live 8, the two biggest awareness-raising concerts in history, had a public spat with Al Gore about the need for the event.

    "Why is he (Gore) actually organising them?" Geldof said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper in May, adding that everyone was already aware of global warming and the event needed firm commitments from politicians and polluters.

    Roger Daltrey, singer from 1970s British rock band The Who, told British newspaper The Sun in May that "the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert."

    And the singer from 80s pop sensations The Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role-models.

    "I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't," he was reported as saying by British music magazine NME.

    Live Earth takes place Saturday in seven cities -- Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, London, Johannesburg and New York -- and organisers hope for a television audience of two billion.

    An eighth show in Rio de Janeiro was cancelled by police due to security concerns.

    "Live Earth is going to bring together a massive audience around the world to take action against the climate crisis," says Live Earth organiser Yusef Robb.

    "Some may say that rock stars tend to be conspicuous consumers, but if we can get those people to turn the corner then we're happy to do so."

    Planners have put an enormous effort into minimising the environmental impact of the event in an effort to pre-empt sniping from critics about hypocrisy and the pollution caused by the concerts.

    Fans are being encouraged to share cars or use public transport to attend, all lightbulbs will be energy-efficient and the food will be sourced locally where possible.

    All the signs from the New York show and the stage in Tokyo will be recycled or composted.

    "Where we can't use biodegradable materials, there'll be comprehensive recycling programmes," said Robb, who says the Live Earth gigs will set new green standards for the events industry.

    After the shows, the organisers, with the help of accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers and an army of consultants, will calculate the volume of carbon emissions created and will then "offset" the difference.

    Carbon offsetting means investing in carbon-reducing initiatives such as planting trees or making donations to renewable energy projects.

    Robb highlights the good work being done by many artists.

    British ska-rock group The Police and US funk-punk band Red Hot Chili Peppers are examples of "people who practice what they preach."

    Meanwhile, nu-metal headliners Linkin Park have their own climate change charity and Hawaiian artist Jack Johnson tours in a biodiesel-fuelled bus.


  2. #12
    somebigguy Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Chana3812
    and according to the article (glad people read more than just the headlines) ....

    melting glacier ice caused the lake to rise, and caused the crack that caused the lake to drain.

    The Bush Administration has done many things to ignore the threat of excessive greenhouse gases. I don't feel like they are terrorising us. It's concerned citizens and celebs that are bringing attention to this matter.

    Time will tell .... but then it may be too late to stop the impending disasters.
    Here are the exact statements:

    A buildup of water opened a crack in an ice wall along one side of the lake.
    ...
    is fed by melt-water from glaciers
    I assume that is how you tie this event in with Global Warming. Please provide details. Water levels rise and fall in all lakes and streams. Now can you provide some definite proof that this is related to global warming?

    Your original post implied the entire lake simply dried up due to global warming. Which is it?

    You make this statement:
    It's concerned citizens and celebs that are bringing attention to this matter
    Like Al Gore?

    You make this statement:

    but then it may be too late to stop the impending disasters.
    Disasters such as what? Depleted uranium? lack of drinking water? destruction of fish habitats due to the dumping of toxic waste and sewage? Colony collapse disorder? GMO?

    No, we're not worried about any of those very real disasters, we'll just worry about carbon emissions, and tax everyone for breathing. That will solve it.

  3. #13
    AuGmENTor Guest
    Hey man, with these guys, it's ALL related to global warming. But the things they do are all good, cuz it's to let us uneducated slobs know all the bad things we are doing. Chana likes to make it sound like Al Gore is the second coming of Jesus Christ, but I'm sure he's in the pocket of more than one corporation. They ALL are. Never forget problem, solution, reaction. They make money off of fighting the very problem they are creating.

  4. #14
    AuGmENTor Guest
    And PS, Don't hold your breath waiting on the breakdown of your questions. She'll go on and on about what SHE wants to, and ignore your valid questions... Not really a surprise.

  5. #15
    Chana3812 Guest
    You guys are too silly.

    Aug - you are a most negative guy. Sorry that you see so much "bad" (your perceived bad) in everyone that is trying to help, and yet you give the Bush thugs a free pass on their crimes. WTF?

    SBG = Depleted Uranuium is another subject altogether, and it's certainly worth discussing. Let's discuss it.

    I have to go to work, so I'll try to answer your questions later, if I can figure out what the questions are.

    Aug, guess you'll have to go bitch-out someone else while I'm gone - where's Royster when you need a good whipping boy ??

    Ciao

  6. #16
    AuGmENTor Guest
    Good thing I could care less what a person with your sense of whats important thinks of me.
    Royster decided to finish his alcohol induced break down in the privacy of his tarpaper shack. Way to totally misrepresent what happened between he and I (but not really surprising)
    If you took every negative word exchanged between you and I and quantified them, I think you'd see that you have given alot more than you've gotten. You hate it that people poke fun at your moronic idol.
    You're all about the glitz. Made such a big show out of telling us how you were on Mr. Wonderfuls campaign trail.(while in reality your toe should have been feeling for the trigger on a 12 gauge) And how wonderful that overpaid, over-rated celebrities want to make us aware of how awful our habits are. See, but none of them are pushing the DU agenda, so that's no good for you. I'll bet a few years ago baby seals were your shtick.

  7. #17
    somebigguy Guest
    From what I saw, Royster was a plant, always talking about aliens, ufos, etc, to marginalize everyone that came here with an honest opinion, so it is good that he is gone. (Is that a fair opinion of him? That just what I saw, although I didn't follow those threads closely at all).

    Chana, Depleted Uranium is certainly worth discussing but not at the exclusion of all other environmental issues. That is was the Global Warming issue has become.

    To seriously examine environmental issues, and come up with real solutions, all threats to the environment have to be given equal weight. It disgusts me how the local beach closures are printed in the paper in such a "matter of fact" tone, as if it is perfectly normal for beaches to be closed due to health risks. Beach closures and water advisories should be the exception, not the rule, and whenever one of these events do occur, people should be yelling from their rooftops for real solutions. And yet, there is not a peep.

    GMO is a huge issue that people should be screaming about for real change, and not a peep. Canada and the U.S. have the highest usage of GMO foods in the world, and the affects these genetically modified foods have on the environment and ourselves are not clearly understood. We are playing Russian roulette with GMO and one day we're all gonna pay. Terminator seeds will cause farmers to become entirely dependent on governments for their seeds. And yet, not a peep.

    Corporations dumping toxic shit in our waterways, and not a peep.

    Corporations dumping toxic shit in our atmosphere, and not a peep.

    Vaccines given to children causing autism and seizures, and not a peep.

    Depleted Uranium, and not a peep.

    Notice the common thread with all of this? It is all corporations doing the polluting, not the average schmoe. Do you think changing your lite bulbs are going to do anything to offset the damage these scumbags are doing to the environment?

    And when these corporations do come up with a plan to fight global warming and it involves additional taxation, you suddenly get former government stooges making movies about it, its all over the TV, every politician is talking about it, its all over the front page.

    This is the same M.O., like Aug says, Problem, Reaction, Solution. And whether you believe global warming is man-made or not, the argument is irrelevant, a carbon tax will do nothing to solve the problem. What have the governments done in the past to give you any sort of comfort level that this additional revenue stream won't be mismanaged like every other tax that is forced upon us?

    More mismanagement, more corruption, and nothing done to actually help the environment. Thats what the carbon tax solution gets us.

  8. #18
    AuGmENTor Guest
    You write alot better than I do. And you have LOTS more tolerance. Thanx for putting that into words.

  9. #19
    MrDark71 Guest
    government supplied seeds huh? ....whoa.. pray tell, what forms of uhhh "produce" is offered?

  10. #20
    somebigguy Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by AuGmENTor
    You write alot better than I do. And you have LOTS more tolerance. Thanx for putting that into words.
    Wow, Augmentor gave me the Clap!

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