"If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down!" Thus Madonna revealed her plan to combat global warming. Clad in a black satin leotard, she gyrated with dancers and simulated sex with an amplifier and a guitar. - lead sentences in the Washington Post article about the Gore Bash to stop Global Warming.
Is it just me (no it isn't) or does there seem to be something really odd about taking this fight to save the planet through the performances of the likes of Madonna? Is this what we're trying to save the planet for?
Too much hot air, not enough thought. These are the people who are telling us to change our ways but don't seem to believe that they, because of talent or dollars, have to follow such limitations.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
And this from The News of the World tabloid, detailed estimates of Madonna's carbon emissions from nine houses, a fleet of cars, a private jet and the Confessions tour, calling her a "climate-change catastrophe."
Her "carbon footprint" is estimated up to 100x that of the average Briton. The gods must be crazy, and those who believe in them are crazier still.
