Live Earth: awareness run amok

Posted July 9th, 2007 by eric

Live Earth set itself up for heaps of mockery with its massive energy consumption to raise awareness for, whoops, the conservation of energy (what little I could stomach bored me into oblivion). Whenever a parade of bandwagoning celebrities shove politics down your throat, it always comes off more than a tad disingenuous. And who better to mock the festivities than National Review, whose editors tend to be known for thinking global warming is little more than an ill-informed opinion. Well, here’s NRO’s Mark Hemingway skewering the boondoggle.

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