Who the hell are people who traverse the world in jets and use enough electricity to power 10 houses for stage lights to preach to us with Live Earth?The Arctic Monkeys, a music group NOT participating in Live Earth, pose the question, not just us conservative whackjobs. Who knew that out of the mouths of young'uns with weird band names could come such common sense wisdom? Why doesn't the "hard hitting" mainstream media ask Algore these questions about hypocrisy?
BRITISH rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.
"It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.
"Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he said in an interview before a concert in Paris.
Bass player Nick O'Malley chimes in: "And we're always jetting off on aeroplanes!"
Large parts of the band's hometown of Sheffield, an industrial city in northern England, were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed.
But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change.
"Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it's like 'who cares what we think about what's happening'?" added Helders.
"There's more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we're in a band?"
And what about these paragons of environmentalism who are jamming for the Earf? Well, let's see:
Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials - the car-loving rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year - and there are doubts about the ability of pop stars to galvanise the world into action.
Hmmm, inspiring, don't you think? But wait, it appears that other activists are getting jealous that Algore is now in the concert promoting business, in addition to his role as pope of the religion of environmentalism:
Bob Geldof, the architect of Live Aid and Live 8, the two biggest awareness-raising concerts in history, had a public spat with Al Gore about the need for the event.
"Why is he (Gore) actually organising them?" Geldof said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper in May, adding that everyone was already aware of global warming and the event needed firm commitments from politicians and polluters.
Roger Daltrey, singer from 1970s British rock band The Who, told British newspaper The Sun in May that "the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert."
Sounds to me like there is trouble in activist land. Is this a rejection of environmentalism, or a rejection of the robot man, the man who you can't tell the difference in personality between he and his oscar trophy, algore?
