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SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: Live Earth Concert

So, who is going to change their lifestyle after hearing Madonna preaching to us?
Madonna who owns 9 houses, half a dozen cars and is flown everywhere by private jet?

Makes me sick.

gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:44 am Post subject:

The chorus of "que sera sera" was a classic for a concert aimed at tackling global warming!

Well done David Gray and Damien Rice
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gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:45 am Post subject:

Another clasic quote:

"If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down!" Madonna revealing her plan to combat global warming.

Laughing

John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday that Live Earth will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas.

"We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth" he said.

And hoabout Genesis singing "Turn It On Again" Laughing

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SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:06 am Post subject:

One of the celeb's interviewed made a mention that she's watched the Great Global Warming Swindle programme too, and pulled a face which to me; spoke volumes.
I'm not convinced by anything I've heard that we're responsible or, that whatever we do will change a planet's atmosphere, but I thought the counter evidence put forward in TGGWS was very believable. It blamed the Sun's activity amongst other natural things.

To see sickly vote grabbing politicians whining on about saving this and cutting down on that makes me angry but to see popstars jumping on the bandwagon is too much.

gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

I am really pleased that I was able to totally miss the event. None of the music was ever going to entertain me, and the idea of the human-cause-of-global-warming has never convinced me.

As I've said elsewhere, you should have seen the weather before humans arrived on the scene. It was hot everywhere then, no ice-poles. A partly frozen earth is actually an anomally.

OK, I am very much for minimising pollution and not wasting energy, it's good housekeeping, efficiency, but I'm sure it won't change the weather. Rainforests, yeah leave them alone, mess with them too much and the LOCAL weather will have a negative effect.

Oh, and people are getting flooded in Britain because they live on flood plains and their drains weren't up to the job.

Oh, and Ziggy knows that fake-Aussie babe!

That's my three announcements for the day. Laughing

Toggy tea slurper · Guest

I didn't see any of it, I was watching Wimbledon and buying a new freezer both of which were far more entertaining than a load of hypocrites telling us what to do.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

There was a lot of swearing going on before the watershed. Jonathan Ross apologising.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:

An all-round rubbish show that was far too Americanised and was one big promo for Al Gore.

And it got terrible ratings - starting at 0.9m and barely peaking at 3.5m when everyone turned on for the 10.30 News!

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

It's a loud of rollocks. It was like a Live Aid concert and loads of famous names getting together to ask us to switch off our lights and stop polluting the universe. I wonder what the used to power the lights, coal? Laughing

At least they all got some apperance fee.

gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

Briant · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject:

I had to video tape it all for my daughter who was at the event! She said it was fabulous! Laughing

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:51 am Post subject:

2 weekends, 2 big (?) concerts, zero change in attitude.

Can I have a concert to celebrate the life of my mother, who, in her own way did as much as Saint Diana, and a concert to raise awareness of the thousands poor folk in Hull whose lives were devastated by the floods?
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SantaFefan · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

Just listening to the new single by the Pet Shop "Boys", Rolling Eyes

I was thinking there should be a " Sickly, Band Wagon jumping, Crappy Song Awareness" Concert featuring some decent musicians who really don't give a monkey's about Al Gore's theories. Very Happy

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:33 am Post subject:

Where's Bon(i)o when you don't need him?
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And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

gfloyd · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I only saw tiny amounts of the concert, as we were burning more carbon going out to a dinner party at some friends that evening, but I actually felt embarassed for Phil Collins (trying to whip up a somnolent Genesis and an underwhelmed audience), Corinne Bailey Rae (who hasn't got the voice for a stadium) and Metallica (who were just bad).

Going back to the original point of the thread, it did occur to me, as I counted 16 flyers and advertising junk that fell out of my weekend newspapers (not to mention all the superfluous supplements) that perhaps I could make a sizeable saving in energy, waste and money by cancelling them and just going to their online sites for news and features.

Not the same, though, and browsing online seems to take so much more time than reading the tangible article.
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