Live Earth in the Balance

The epochal moment if nigh, and the planet shall soon be swept up in Live Earth fever.

Or maybe not.

Plagued by poor ticket sales and uncertainty as to whether some locations would be able to pull it off, some question what the point of it all is and will it in fact do more harm than good. A hot weekend in July isn't exactly good timing, either, though of course that gives the vainglorious Al Gore the opportunity to tell us we're melting and only he can save us.

Doug Heye at Pajamas Media has an interesting look at what to expect and the residual effect it may have on Gore.

Apparently, Gore believes the carbon footprint left by jet and automobile fuel and emission, the lighting, sound equipment, sound and stage trucks, artist hospitality, web-streaming, audio and video recording, concessions and everything else that is involved in staging concerts on all seven continents will be offset by directing local hotels to change its light bulbs, use different cleaning products and place recycling containers in rooms and by paying carbon credits and, where possible, changing more light bulbs and ferrying musicians in a Prius.

Indeed, LiveEarth’s own website is filled with such nonsense. One of the benefits for the environment, LiveEarth’s blog states, is that not “all the artists fly in private jets.” Would a musician living in New York City take a private jet to Giants Stadium anyway?

“It is a manufactured get-out-of-enviro-guilt-jail-free card,” said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute said of the Green Event Standard. “How they can so loudly promote their own elitism is merely further proof thereof,” Horner asked.

Meanwhile, Gore is shamelessly pandering to the far-left kooks from MoveOn.

You'll recall that previous efforts to bring the concert to Washington were blocked.

From an email sent today to MoveOn.org members, from former Vice President Al Gore:

Dear MoveOn members,

I've got some exciting news: With the help of our friends at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, "Mother Earth," a Live Earth-affiliated event, is coming to Washington D.C. tomorrow.

If we want to show our elected leaders that Americans want real action to solve the climate crisis—nothing will make that more clear than thousands of people joining me at the concert tomorrow morning.

I'll be there at 10:30 a.m. and then some special friends of mine, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, will each perform a song and the classic blues band Blues Nation will take the stage. The day will also feature Native American rock, funk, punk, reggae, gospel and Andean music in addition to films.

The wooden indian claims 2 billion people will be watching. As if. They'll just make it up and nobody will question them anyway.

7/7/07 is going to be an amazing day linking together 7 continents, over 100 artists and 2 billion people to "answer the call" to combat the climate crisis.

I'll be answering the call to the pool, fatboy.

Expect plenty of moral preening, propaganda and a likely trail of ecological disaster after all the earth-worshippers leave their mess behind.

Michelle Malkin has some questions.