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It seems that there are some celebrities that are not so full of themselves that they are going to run around telling other people how to live, regardless of their own lifestyles. Case in point are the Arctic Monkeys. Who refused to participate in the Live Earth event because as drummer Matt Helders puts it:

“It’s a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world….
Especially when we’re using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It’d be a bit hypocritical,”

Al Gore’s upcoming “Live Earth” is a multi-continent giant concert extravaganza which promises big stars giving a continuous 24 hour concert in 7 countries (it was going to be 8, but Brazil backed out due to security concerns). For those not in the know, Live Earth is a benefit for Global Warming. Yes, that is correct, Global Warming. See, apparently making a movie about it, and flying all over the world telling everyone they need to leave a smaller carbon footprint just isn’t getting everyone as riled up as they should be. So in his infinite wisdom Al Gore is staging these gigantic concert events all over the world. Getting super star bands to fly (no word if on private jets or commercial airliners) to remote locations to spend hours and hours consuming vast quantities of resources and fossil fuels to tell the rest of the world they need to cut back on these things.

But the event organizers did state they are going to calculate the carbon emissions output by the concerts and do things like make donations to renewable energy projects and plant trees and what not to offset their extravagant creation of emissions during the concert. Hey, here’s an idea, why don’t they just plant the trees and make the donations, and not do the concerts? That way there is actually a net-gain from the planting and donations, instead of a zero gain/loss total.

Bigsibling is going to have to buy an Arctic Monkeys CD just to support people with their heads firmly attached to terra firma like these folks!

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