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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Nobody is saying that the concerts themselves don't have a carbon footprint, but it's an incredibly large (and fallacious) stretch to state that Live Earth is the single largest polluter on the earth on July 7, 2007.
Do you really think the concerts are responsible for more CO2 emissions than all the dirty coal electricity plants run by the Chinese government? Or all the emissions produced by aircraft from a major airline or a shipping company like FedEx? Or the daily operations of the United States military, with all their gas-guzzling Hummers and armoured vehicles, not to mention hundreds of diesel-burning ships and thousands of jet aircraft?
Seriously?
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So basically, the collective singular event could produce maybe 80,000-90,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions via certain estimates if they are accurate.
Current estimates of ALL Chinese coal-fired powerplants indicate that in 2007, they will produce something about 898,938 metric tonnes of carbon emissions PER DAY. That means the collective Live Earth event is producing as much pollution as 1/10th of ALL the coal powerplants put together in China today!!! I said the entire Live Earth event is probably one of the most polluting events happening on planet earth on July 7th, 2007...not the singular largest polluter.