climate change
y'know... what's up with global warming? some people say it's legit and happening and the world's gonna explode within 45 years or something; others say it's a bunch of hooey for some purpose or something (I'm not sure what purpose that would be but I'd imagine it has something to do with publicity and ultimately lots of money somewhere).
Recently they had this big Live Earth concert up at the Giants stadium and apparently there are a lot of people saying it was a big wash. People left their trash, companies handed out useless junk, performing artists had no idea what they were performing for, and basically everybody did a bunch of stuff that is completely contrary to the whole "be green!" message the concert was meant to project.
What I wanna know is this: why aren't they doing stuff like that about the issues that everyone agrees upon? AIDS, hunger, poverty, war and conflict for instance? Everybody knows that Africa is being utterly ravaged by AIDS right now but I don't see any media attention on it. Thousands upon thousands (literally) die EVERY DAY (last time I checked, I think the number was somewhere around 26,000) of completely PREVENTABLE food and water related reasons merely because everybody else is using the world's resources to their own ends (for huge Live Earth concerts perhaps?). Poverty is widespread throughout the world, even in our own country poverty is a problem for a number of people and yet we choose to spend our time and effort on a somewhat ambiguous problem that some scientists are still not even sure about? Regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan, The West Bank, and Darfur, to name a famous handful, are perpetually filled with conflict and yet we're more concerned with the current temporarily hot weather?
What are we coming to? When did our culture become one of fad activism?
Recently they had this big Live Earth concert up at the Giants stadium and apparently there are a lot of people saying it was a big wash. People left their trash, companies handed out useless junk, performing artists had no idea what they were performing for, and basically everybody did a bunch of stuff that is completely contrary to the whole "be green!" message the concert was meant to project.
What I wanna know is this: why aren't they doing stuff like that about the issues that everyone agrees upon? AIDS, hunger, poverty, war and conflict for instance? Everybody knows that Africa is being utterly ravaged by AIDS right now but I don't see any media attention on it. Thousands upon thousands (literally) die EVERY DAY (last time I checked, I think the number was somewhere around 26,000) of completely PREVENTABLE food and water related reasons merely because everybody else is using the world's resources to their own ends (for huge Live Earth concerts perhaps?). Poverty is widespread throughout the world, even in our own country poverty is a problem for a number of people and yet we choose to spend our time and effort on a somewhat ambiguous problem that some scientists are still not even sure about? Regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan, The West Bank, and Darfur, to name a famous handful, are perpetually filled with conflict and yet we're more concerned with the current temporarily hot weather?
What are we coming to? When did our culture become one of fad activism?