Comments on: Live Earth too fuzzy

By: reader

reader — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:12:10 +0000

Just a thought here, but I have read some troubling stuff about how Al Gore is acting as a shill for the coal and nuclear lobbies. If this is even remotely true, it might explain why Live Earth did not say anything about coal fired power plants, much less nuclear power (and the massive amounts of toxic waste the it creates).

By: Bob Morris

Bob Morris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:52:12 +0000

Like, what if Live Earth had made coal plants a major issue, with a video backdrop of belching coal plants while bands across the planet did music about how coal sucks. Done right, that could have made worldwide headlines.

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:38:37 +0000

I agree with Bob. Not buying bottled water and avoiding plastic bags are important, but their total impact on the problem as a whole is negligible. Sure we should do these things– but if we send the message that doing them is enough, so don’t buy bottled water and you can feel good about your contribution, well, we here in the West are going to fry.

By: Bob Morris

Bob Morris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:20:00 +0000

Well, we need “oppose all coal plants worldwide” and “mandatory emissions limits” as slogans and goals too. An opportunity was missed, in my opinion, to get a real message out to the planet.

By: Eli Stephens

Eli Stephens — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:03:40 +0000

I think that’s unfair. If you take into account the ads that were run, the literature supposedly given to attendees, and some of the speeches, there was certainly a focus - actions of the individual, e.g., stop buying water in plastic bottles and just refill a refillable bottle. There was even some “larger-scale, non-personal” solutions suggested (in the “pledge”), e.g., vote only for politicians that pledge to do such and such.