Everyone involved with this horseshit needs to be slapped. Hard.
“Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward distributing power-efficient light bulbs and other measures to offset the shows’ greenhouse gas emissions.”
Update: Read this article (via Michele) for more precise detail on the monkeyfuck stupidity of this entire concept.
And you, John Mayer, you are rapidly making me regret every penny I’ve spent on your music, and every second I’ve spent listening to it, your mad guitar skillz aside. No, a bunch of millionaires jetting around the world to tout climate change isn’t a fucking “revolution.” It’s just one more example of how utterly disassociated from reality you “entertainment” types have become. And yes, I lump fucking Al Gore under that heading, because even when the bitch was Vice President he was nothing more than a sock puppet.
Has it occurred to all you little people out there that it’s YOU they’re pointing the fingers at with all this? It’s YOU they want to reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s YOU they want to make reduce carbon emissions. It’s YOU they want to force to buy the triple expensive fluorescent (mercury-containing) light bulbs. Do you think THEY are going to stop using private jets? Stop schlepping entire entourages around the globe? Change every lightbulb in their 15000 sq foot house to fluorescent? Drive a Toyota Prius instead of a Cadillac Escalade?
Highly unlikely.
So, if I were you, I’d question exactly how a bunch of party-hopping, overpaid, college (and high school) dropouts get to the moral high ground here. If they’re not practicing it, and they ain’t, then they have no fucking business preaching it.