I'm posting this story In the Name of Love and massive carbon footprint...
Environmentalists and fans of Earth, you have a new enemy: U2.
It has just been reported U2's latest world tour will not help Earth have a Beautiful Day. So Bono, Edge, Adam and the other guy, get ready for War.
According to the folks at carbonfootprint.com, as U2 walk on their 100 date, 18 month world tour, their carbon footprint will equal the yearly output of 6,500 people.
Blimey Gloria, call the Angel of Harlem! This will Bullet the Blue Sky!
"The carbon footprint generated by U2's 44 concerts this year is equal to carbon created by the four band members traveling the 34.125 million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane."Link
That's Bad.
Worse, the tour continues well after New Year's Day 2010 finishing around October of next year. Spew Carbon spew!
Now much of the tour's carbon footprint won't coming via Mysterious Ways. It's from transporting the three 390-ton stages, using 3286.60 tons of CO2, with another 916.07 tons for extra equipment. Then pile on all the Electric Co. costs of power stadiums and arena's. Wow, out of control!
I guess when Bono said last year that we all need to "become better at looking after our planet" he wasn't including his band in the mix.
Now for the good news: If U2 want to offset their emissions they won't need a Miracle Drug. They'll just have to visit Van Diemen's Land, find One Tree Hill and plant over 20,000 more around it.
Course One will be a start.
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I wonder if these morons realize that plants need carbon dioxide to live and all life on this planet is carbon based?
Now if the planes all spewed sarin nerve gas into the air, THEN i'd be concerned.
Also Baier, that's got to be a record for number of song titles contained in a post. Good Job!
oh my freakin' gord, STOP WITH THE U2 REFERENCES!
Because We Can Live, With Or Without Them.
maybe we could just send them to Mars one way, i mean we've done the math and they've had their 15 minutes.
In the Name of Love, That's ridiculous!
what bono ment by, " we need to become better at looking after the planet" is, that the rest of us need to do better . not so much "we" as in "he" but you and i. kinda like the whole smokey the bear thing. you know, when he lays that preventing forrest fires crap on us?
i'll start saving the planet once i'm sure that all my handy work won't be fucked up by some earthquake or tornado or giant flood. if anyone can give me promise those things won't happen i can start on sunday bloody sunday.
fuck bono. pave the planet! that's what i always say.
Sorry JohnDoe, the Elevation has gone to my head.
This pisses me off in more ways than one. I just love how the rest of the world gets to be these sanctimonious crum-bum-chums' personal dumping ground.
See, I guess when U2 said they wanted to do more for the planet, they were talking about the fragile, difficult to sustain, starving people living under the oppressive boot of crushing dictators, not the ancient mass of 6 septillion kilograms that has experienced numerous global cataclysms without traceable concerns to the nearly negligible (from the earth's point of view) human carbon output.
Then again, I'm sure an activist group with money to raise under the shadow of fabricated histeria knows a hell of a lot more than I do.
(gasp) surely you're not suggesting that special interest or activist groups are giving opinions based solely on profits are you dsb? of course you're not. why, that would be capitalistic of them and we all know how they feel about capitalists.
have a beautiful day.
If they had put out some stupid press release (even if it was a lie) about the planes using biodegradable fuel. Or the stage being made of recycled plastic and the lights all energy saving LCD, etc...then this would be a non story.
You'd think being on the moral high ground all the time would give Bono Vertigo.
For real. If I could say one thing to Bono it would be - All I Want Is You, to lighten the fuck up.
You'd think that this kerfluffle would at least finally answer the immortal question: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On the Bed Post Overnight?
Oh wait, I'm thinking of a different U2, I think.
BOO #$@%'IN HOO!!!! Just like all tree hugging, hypocritical, hairy legged bitches out there. DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO. Al F'ing Gores' heroes. NOISE POLUTION more like it!!!!