August 25th 2008
Madonna Plugs Global Warming Activism On Monster Carbon Tour
Filed under: music, not green — michael @ 2:27 pm
Back in May, when details of Madonna’s latest tour were revealed, we bitched that the material girl had absolutely nothing in the press release to indicate her green promises of yesteryear. At Live Earth 2007, the legendary singer had publicly stated that going forward her carbon footprint would be reduced. Now, with the tour underway, it appears that she needs larger shoes.
Environmental organizations got into the commenting zone last week when Madonna’s crew publicly released the amount of crap and resources going into her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. In particular, the peeps over at CarbonFootprint.com released figures showing that her 45-day concert extravaganza is equivalent to the carbon output of around 160 Britons — in one year.
Most of this might have been curbed had Madonna has the sense of mind to assign a green music organization — such as Reverb — to making sure her tour embraced some sustainable options for dealing with its consumption. A great game plan for convincing the thousands of concert-goers to reduce their own footprints would also have been useful.
Even odder? Madonna is plugging Global Warming activism on her tour!! In a video interlude of her song “Get Stupid”, she flashes several images of the planet being harmed — with slices of it slowly being taken away. There are even flashes of Al Gore on screen, along with those of Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, and Barack Obama. For some reason, she also grouped John McCain in with a montage that features Hitler. Really?!
The video also features the words “ACT!” at random intervals — something we wish Madonna had thought of after creating it. Not backing up her promises to help the world — and only pontificating on the subject — makes her more of a liability to the green movement and less of a driving force.
[...] clipped from http://www.ecorazzi.com [...]
i totally agree. she is a hyporcite. when i saw the break down of how many catering trucks, q-tips, buses and trucks and whatever else she is using on her tour, i thought, “wow- thats a lot of WASTE!!”
the trucks alone for the catering is the one thing that really gets me. who needs multiple refrigerator trucks?
[...] Ecorazzi is holding her to those words, and they’re disappointed. According to them: Environmental organizations got into the commenting zone last week when Madonna’s crew publicly released the amount of crap and resources going into her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. In particular, the peeps over at CarbonFootprint.com released figures showing that her 45-day concert extravaganza is equivalent to the carbon output of around 160 Britons — in one year… [...]
Madonna has made a career out of superficial and shallow… Just take a look at her early interviews on MTV… Me, Me, Me… She’s taken it to a whole new level. She’ll grab at any issue of the day and slap it to her sauce, like wrapping herself around the American flag for Rock The Vote and then, not even bother to register and cast her own ballot! But she can sing, and she can dance, she can inspire the heart, and prance around like a diva on steroid… with all her kundalini kabalah chakras tuned to the void!
[...] and her family have begun to change the way they operate so as to better show her concern for the planet. Well, as long as it doesn’t affect her tour: The 45 concerts are expected to generate more [...]
I mean these people can’t be THIS dumb or honestly believe rest of us are THAT dumb. I am getting sick pf hearing all of these “green celebrities” saying go green go green, reduce reduce, blah blah blah and they aren’t even living it. It is like we want you to save our planet so we don’t have to change our lives. Don’t these people get it, walking around in a green tee shirt carrying a plastic bag doesn’t help our situation any…and honestly it doesn’t make you look cool…just stupid.
[...] and her family have begun to change the way they operate so as to better show her concern for the planet. Well, as long as it doesn’t affect her tour: The 45 concerts are expected to generate more [...]
[...] Last month, I noted the irony of Madonna’s tour showing her “Get Stupid” video featuring montages of the Earth’s destruction — while simultaneously contributing to that very act. As far as we, or anyone else can tell, the material girl has done absolutely nothing with her “Sticky and Sweet” tour to take the sustainable high road. [...]
The only thing that Madonna cares about. Money.
[...] central Spain uses during a full year! There is no mention of her carbon offsetting efforts, and as one article pointed out, she could have used an enviro-friendly tour production group, but chose not [...]