The Live Earth Concerts
Wolfie — July 7, 2007, 3:10 pm
I’m currently trying to watch the “Live Earth” concert on my [carbon obscene] plasma TV, however I can’t hear the bands very well as its being drowned out by the constant noise of passing helicopters leaving the Battersea London Heliport. The helicopters started at about 08:30 this morning as they shuttled limousine passengers hither and thither. No doubt quite a few of them are attending the concert. Traffic from the heliport has gone up astronomically over the last few years and all residential complaints have been met with contempt.
This must be one of the most hypocritical events ever staged.
Something else to consider : China’s Poison for the Planet
(Globalization = Planet Death)
Filed under: Rant
I read the article on China, scary stuff. Thanks for the link.
Indeed very scary Sophia. So here we are being exalted by various Rock-Stars to cut back our consumption and carbon emissions while a highly industrialised China pumps the world full of toxins at an ever increasing rate. I recall reading somewhere (although I’d like the precise figures confirmed) that even if the UK returned to a pre-industrial state tomorrow the savings to the planet would be eclipsed by China’s growth within 18 months.
This is one of the arguments we hear from Australian politicians, that even if all carbon emissions were stopped in Australia, the world total would reduce by less than one percent. What they omit to mention is that Australia is one of the largest coal and raw mineral exporters.
I looked into China’s environmental record when I was teaching and working in Singapore. There is a good deal of empirical evidence, along with objective evidence from my visits to China. China and India are the like the European Industrial Revolution taking place in a quarter of the time with orders of magnitude larger scale. The effects are there to see and will continue to get worse. Very depressing.