Well it is Friday. i am unbearably tired simply because I could not sleep last night, but I have an hour to kill so I might as well slip in a little rant…

Some global awareness requires a concert does it. Lots of top dog international music stars being flown in by plane to plug themselves into a large sounds system which requires four or five generators (not those little ones you get by ice cream vans, the BIG ones that get towed behind carnival floats) and sing loudly under bright lights (re power needs, increase ‘em to six gennies), whilst 50 thousand people eat hot dogs and burgers (more power Cap’n) and drop ton upon ton of litter into the food chain.

What a brilliant idea. Obviously to prevent pollution you need to cause a little. Must be like an investment bank. Give em 20,000 tonnes of CO2 and they will stop polluting to the tune of 20 million tonnes. Right.? Errr I can’t see that happening.

Is there now less famine in the Third World Nation’s thanks to Bob Geldof and Bono Baggins.? I doubt it very much. Their little venture of Live8 did pretty much shit all apart from entertain a few western nations (oh the deep, deep irony) and, well cause some pollution. More irony is the fact that this “24 hour rock concert” is being pushed forward by the Americans. One of the world’s BIGGEST polluting nations. Judging by the line ups for some of the concerts I can see it isn’t just air pollution they are going for… noise pollution is going to be quite a feature too… Black Eyed Peas, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Faith Hill, Kelly Flaming Clarkson.!

This is really not the way to promote a clean planet. Re-educating the Yanks and the Chinese and telling the Australians to cut down on all those sodding barbeques would be a good start.

When it comes to pollution I really have stopped caring. I hear so many different stories from some many different scientists that it is awfully hard to decide on what is happening and before you say “heresay means nothing” I am talking about studies published in New Scientist and other journals, not the crap you get in The Sun.

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