Live Earth

this is confirmed for dc according to another artical
2/15/07, 12:30 pm EST

Breaking News: Al Gore Announces â??Live Earthâ? Mega-Concert
Al Gore is teaming up with the organizers of Live 8 and a slew of music biggest stars for a twenty-four hour concert across seven continents (yes, including Antarctica) on July 7th (7/7/07) to raise awareness of environmental issues. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, John Mayer, Akon, A.F.I., Fall Out Boy, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill are among the participating artists being announced at a press conference in Los Angeles today. Though not all of the locations have been confirmed, organizer Kevin Wall, who spearheaded the Live 8 concerts in 2005, has a possible plan: â??Weâ??ll start in Shanghai, and go to Sydney and Rio De Janeiro and Washington D.C. and London and Johannesburg and finish the show in Kyoto at the old Buddhist temple where we would do an acoustic show and ask the world to take a breath.â? The concerts, which will include short films and presentations designed to educate the world on the climate crisis and advocate for specific changes, will be broadcast in over 120 countries â?? on NBC and seven cable networks in the U.S. â?? and webcast on MSN (revenues from ticket sales will go towards various environmental groups). â??Our success, I hope, is to act like a tipping point for a lot of movements that are already happening,â? says Wall, who approached Gore with the idea after seeing his film, An Inconvenient Truth. â??I told Al, â??Two million people have seen this movie â?? two billion people will watch this event. Weâ??ll give you the microphone. Letâ??s make a change here.â??â?

– Evan Serpick

Or, I'd like to see it at MPP. (on a weekend of course, Seth. ;) ) Hell, I might even look into volunteering…It'll be like Earth Day 1995 all over again! ;)

Rock stars trying to look like they care about something other than their egos. When will this narcissistic foolishness stop?

It reminds me of that movie, idiocracy.

I loved that movie.

The world is getting dumber before your eyes. Thereâ??s a reason for this, and it has very little to do with our educational system: Simply put, the dumb ones have more babies. There are exceptionsâ??you might be one of them, so donâ??t freak the fuck out on meâ??but thatâ??s the general rule. As the world grows dumber, the smart and discerning will become even less willing to plop their frail offspring into this squalling, dysgenic soup bowl. And things will get worse.

The filmâ??s opening sequence is a split-screen comparison of a high-IQ yuppie couple contrasted against a trailer-park â??tard named Clevon. The yuppies, sometimes with good reason, consistently hesitate to reproduce, while Clevonâ??s fertile scrotum effortlessly yields multiple progeny. As the male yuppie finally succumbs to a heart attack while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial inseminationâ??effectively killing his bloodlineâ??Clevon survives a jet-ski injury to his testicles and continues to impregnate multiple dimwitted females. The screen rapidly becomes overpopulated with a flow chart of Clevonâ??s descendants. As we watched this segment about the stupidâ??s birth rate running roughshod over that of the intelligent, my brother said, â??Whatâ??s scary about this is itâ??s so true.â?

Itâ??s trueâ??inarguablyâ??but nearly impossible to mention without facing the wrath of censorious egalitarian fascists everywhere. These days, it is nearly a crimeâ??and it may be a literal criminal offense in the near futureâ??to imply that intelligence is hereditary and that societyâ??s interests might best be served if stupid people took a chill pill on the breedinâ??.

Liberals seem sensitive to everything except whatâ??s truly important. Back in the early 1970s, population control used to be a solid plank in the liberal platform until it was deemed culturally insensitive to imply that many women should keep their frickin' legs shut. Now there are nearly TWICE as many people on Earth as there were thenâ??and most of them seem highly stupidâ??but the â??sensitiveâ? lefty cowards are too afraid to make a peep about it. Perhaps because of this, Idiocracy was released with almost zero publicity.

Things donâ??t magically become untrue simply because they hurt your feelings. The passage of time does not always bring progress. People ARE getting dumber. A middle finger and the word â??whateverâ? are the closest to articulation that most folks can muster. Weâ??re already halfway to the world depicted in Idiocracy. Sterilization is probably too harsh and inhumane, but after all, the stupid are stupid. There has to be some way we can trick them into using birth control.

This is a fundamental, axiomatic belief held by a shockingly large portion of the population, I'm afraid. Such people will tell you– in all seriousness– that intelligence can't be hereditary, because that would be racist. The more consistent among their lot will deny all evidence they find intolerable (the late S. J. Gould) or will demonstrate incredible ingenuity in the fabrication of the most ponderous alternative hypotheses in order to evade the obvious conclusions (Jared Diamond)…

I know a couple of college-educated types who, when faced with facts they consider immoral, simply retreat into a sort of solipsism. That is the "New Age," feel-good approach to Transcendent Wisdom: if you don't like it, simply deny all of reality outright! "Everything is subjective" they'll tell you. They "construct" their own "realities," they'll tell you. "What's real to you isn't what's real to me," they'll tell you. And they've read a bunch of really stupid books which promote the really stupid notion that quantum physics somehow supports this head-up-your-ass worldview… I no longer argue with these people.

What all this goes to show is that the demonstrably intelligent (or, at least, the educated) can be amazingly stupid. The authors of The Bell Curve were at pains to sound the alarm: what's happening at the high end is just as dangerous as what's happening at the low end. The "cognitive elite" live their lives so protected from reality, their most dire concern is not unemployment or housing or foreign relations or the federal budget or even their beloved social inequities… it's Global Warming. They are (literally) living in Cloud-Cuckoo Land. These Leaders of Civilisation are isolated so incestuously in their ideologies and experience– and so defensively narcissistic in their collective moral self-righteousness– that any public mention of the word "eugenics" would cause them to fill auditoriums across the nation so they could line up to blubber and sob into microphones.

How much would admission be if it were at MPP?

What is the aggregate carbon footprint created by thousands of people driving their air-conditioned cars to Columbia?

dupek, how did i know you were into eugenics?!?

viva la nineteenth century!

Why has no one questioned the obvious: A concert for global warming? I'm not exactly making only left turns, but this mention is getting trite already. Now a concert with the infamous internet founder at the helm. Apparently I missed the evidence that shows how much "good" our hybrid cars will bring this fast sinking ship. I have no problem with social responsibility, but I'm not sure Fall Out Boy is going to do any more than give certain politicians warm fuzzies.

"dupek, how did i know you were into eugenics?!?"

It's true, if by 'eugenics' you mean I can see that your personal eugeneic destiny is to be one of those very prolific 21st century breeders as mentioned in the movie Idiocracy?

You've got me pegged there sport.

i wonder how many people will be polluting the air by smoking pot at this thing.

Will there also be sandals, beads, didgeridoos, incense, peace signs, dreadlocks, tie die, whole grain granola, herb tea, bean sprouts, free love, B.O., & drum circles?

tipper gore will have a side stage spouting off that if you play the music being heard from the main stage backwards, you will get a subscription to Mother Earth News and start growing your own food.

Global warming, also known as Climate Change, is a theory by a bunch of tree-hugging liberal hippies that states unless we go back and live in caves, the polar ice caps will melt and life as we know it will cease to exist. Global warming is based on psuedoscience by a bunch of liberal crackpots who have a political agenda. It is almost exclusively believed by left wing bleeding-heart Democrats who are influenced by rich environmental lobby groups and opposed to the economy and anyone with a job. One of these bleeding heart socialist Democrats, Al Gore, has made a propaganda video regarding global warming entitled An Inconvenient Truth which uses heartless fear-mongering in an attempt to get people to consume less and sabotage the American economy, culminating in the terrorists winning. Republicans would never use this type of fear mongering for political gain. These are the same tree hugging hippies that said that we were plunging into an ice age back in the 70s and 80s.

The active hurricane season of 2005 has been cited by radical communists as incontrovertible confirmation of global warming. Conservatives have fought back, though, citing the fact that 2006 had fewer hurricanes than 2005, therefore "global warming" is not occurring. If global warming were true, conservatives say, the number of storms would not decrease. In fact, The Ward Ice Shelf incident was proven to have occurred in one of two ways; either it was broken up because of a terrorist attack or the satellite image taken by scientists was doctored and no break up actually occurred. Religious people say that global warming is caused by Man not God. It is a sign of end times and there is nothing we can do about it. In recent years, atheists believe we should all be ignorant and go dig a hole and put our heads inside. It is also beleived that the increase in atheists is a cause.

If you stop and think about it global warming is a good thing. The oceans would rise so it would be eaiser to go to the beach,if the tops of Mountians melt then the whole family can climb Mt. Everest. Sure some people might drown but if it's not you then what do you care. If you sell summer clothes than you will make a lot more money, and you will never have to plow your drive way again. GLOBAL WARMING IS TRULY FTW!!!

hahaha, dupek that's hillarious. what's the source on that? linkage please!

What, do you doubt that this wonderful stuff is not my original verse?

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

You're not gonna call me a racist/nazi too, are you? It's quite the latest rage.

see? i was right to doubt that this wonderful stuff was not your original verse. you're a nut-job, but not that big a nut-job… your style is a little more subtle :)

as for accusations, i'm usually last to the party when it comes to picking up on trends.

I kinda liked how race didn't play a big role in Idiocracy. The film takes it for granted that the same "only the dumb reproduce in large numbers" rule applies to all ethnicities. Certain ethnic/racial groups may have more dumb members than others.

Nature doesn't have a vested interest in keeping smart people around. But it doesn't have a particular interest in killing them off, either. Smarts might not be a guarantee of success, but neither is fecundity. And stupidity, in almost any conceivable real-world scenario, is a liability. Stupid people will never overwhelm the smart ones. The whole system is self-correcting, without involving bullshit like God or Hope or abstract ideas like "Progress."

I don't know the best way to illustrate my argument. Maybe I'll start at the end, in a worst-case scenario.

Picture no smart people at all. Let's say a disease, brought by germy, preschool-age aliens, kills EVERY human with an IQ higher than 30. Picture a world purely populated with severely retarded folks.

That scenario has already happened, in prehistory. Everyone was a dumb monkey, throwing shit and screeching. Every time a smarter ape baby got squoozed out, on average it survived long enough to squooze out more ape babies than its dumber pals. It outmaneuvered predators, and secured more food by manipulating its pals, and thought twice before sampling those bright red berries.

Get past a certain lower threshold and intelligence will rebound. It's an advantage in almost every significant way, although perhaps there's an upper limit beyond which intelligence makes society top-heavy and unstable. Perhaps we're entering that period now, fucking with plague germs and radiation.

People are stupid now because they can be. If the balance ever tips too far in their favor, smart people will rebound. And evidence is consistent on the side of them ALWAYS having been this stupid. They weren't holding spelling bees at the Roman Coliseum. A bunch of proto-Italian fuckwits watching exotic animals eat people isn't any smarter than Idiocracy's "Ow! My Balls!" show or whatever show Paris Hilton is agreeing to right now.

If one smart group group left the dumber members behind, they'd exploit the dumb ones, inevitably. There'd be two opposing forces working against this situation, though. The smart ones would reduce the pressure to get smart. They'd become lax, and tell themselves stories of their innate superiority. They'd accomodate their less intelligent children, because in the end, it's a numbers game, and Nature would never breed out the HAVE/KEEP MORE KIDS! imperative. So the smart group would slip.

Meanwhile, the dumb ones would be selecting upwards, for the same reasons I listed above, in the case of our primitive ancestors. It would be bloody and brutal and horrible, but infighting and stress would inevitably breed for smarts.

If the two groups could stay separate long enough to exaggerate their downward and upward trends, you'd get something that the Neanderthal species must have encountered when they first encountered Homo Sapiens. The smart ones won on that occasion.

If a disease wiped out all dumb people, there'd be as much or MORE instability. You get a lot of ambitious smartypants, each thinking he knew better than that other smartypants. Dumb people make for nasty wars, but smart people make for nastier ones. Dumb people end up fighting and then backing off, like most animals after they've established social hierarchy or breeding rights. Smart people fight to kill, understanding that wiping out your opponent's genes is more practical than having to sort shit out every mating season.

Figuratively speaking, Nature just likes conflict. It doesn't give a shit who's fighting, or why. It just likes the fighting. As far as Nature is concerned, fighting works like a charm to sort things out and spread life.

Nature also breeds in things like cooperation and all that chick shit, too. It doesn't care if an animal has just slaughtered its opponent, or simply pointed out its opponent's shoelaces were untied and then skipped town. As long as it makes it home to make sweet love to its mate, Nature's got nothing against it.
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