Live Earth Manages To Raise Awareness Of The Need To Raise Awareness… About Something.
Live Earth over the weekend proved gbjkghbdfjkgnfdjaghkazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Oh sorry, we just fell asleep on our keyboard.
Live Earth was, well, among many other things, another excuse for eighteen year old girls to wear their coolest slogan tees from Supre and drop E while dancing to Sneaky Sound System.
Other than that, it was a bit of a snore. Call us, we don’t know, whatever you want – cynical perhaps, but we’re just not really turned on by pseudo-environmentalist musicians and celebrities telling us to “sleep with my missus instead of jumping on a plane” (Thanks for that tip, Tim “Rosso” Ross, does that also mean you should politely refuse next time the Spiderman 3 people offer to fly you to Japan for a film premiere?)
As for the whole “messageâ€, we here at Defamer think it may have got lost in the translation, especially when we read this on smh.com.au on Saturday arvo.
Helen Price, 37, of Roseberry, said she bought tickets for the show as soon as they went on sale.
Ms Price said she was conscious of the global warming issue but was not planning to make any changes to her lifestyle as a result of attending the concert.
“It is more about raising awareness,” she said.
So when the world explodes and we all die from CO2 poisoning, famine, drought or boredom from listening to Al Gore speak one too many times, at least we’ll know why we died, because it’s all about AWARENESS, right? Not action. No, just AWARENESS.
And for the record, to all the inner-city folk who drive massive 4WDs, but wash their hands of their environmental responsibilities by donating money to carbon trading schemes, you’re not fooling anyone. Throwing cash at a problem does not fix the problem. It simply absolves you of your guilt.
End rant.
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Jess! Here you are! I thought I has lost you. I remembered that you were tinkling your poetic fingers at some other website now, but I couldn’t remember which. Then, in a flash of inspiration, I thought, hey, I’ll check back at Ausculture. That should tell me where she went to. And here you are! I wish I had of thought sooner to take the logical route.
Anyway, about Live Earth…
I was thinking along a similar line as yourself… it all seemed a bit of a cop out. I hadn’t even heard of the idea until a few days ago so the only awareness that it’s raised for me is only a few days old, and not anything I didn’t already know. I’m doing what I can to be environmentally conscious. What can I do NEXT is what I wanna know. Bozos like Helen Price, 37, of Roseberry, are gonna keep messing shit up for the rest of us, so we need to be taking on the burden of morons like that, too. Everyone can do their bit, and then some, to cover Helen’s ass.
I can hear Al Gore on Oprah right now, and I can’t help but thinking that climate change has become the hot topic of the minute that will fizzle out soon enough without effecting any ACTUAL change. Everyone will know about it, sure, but once the next big fad comes along, will Sneaky Sound System playing at some dive oval in Sydney really have made that much difference?
P.S. Sign me up for the German porn.