On 2007 July 7, many places around the world celebrated Live Earth Day. At my church, we had a combined meeting of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Moveon.org that attracted many people from my congregation, featured what people, including Democratic Presidential candidates, would do about global warming, and even featured an actual product: an LED lamp.
But was Live Earth in general a success? Jim Kunstler doesn’t think so. In his Clusterf nation Chronicles for today, "Rain Dance", he says that the event was dominated by all these rock bands strutting out their stuff making loud noises that consume electricity. That is what some of us thought at First Church when the TV turned towards what was happening elsewhere for Live Earth Day. Actually, one might call Live Earth a Cooling Dance.
You cannot do anything about peak oil or curb global warming with prima donnas playing rock music all over the place to mesmerized audiences. What does this rock music have to do with global warming? These stars could eventually allow a dictator to make use of these crowds of "fans" to take absolute power.
And what's Al Gore doing anyway, says Jim Kunstler. Why does he make movies like the prima donnas do and wail about global warming instead of getting somewhere where he can do something about it? Why doesn't he run for President?
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