Yay another win for the star team! haha.. Had BQ training after school and we won again as usual lol...

Went to west mall with Jerry and Joshua after that.

In school, me, Yan Hui, Samuel, Khairul and Nevin were talking about something we call the "Live Earth Paradox". Its about Live Earth causing more harm than good. It all starts with the concerts. Heres some of it.

The "Live Earth Paradox"

Concert:
-Setting up the concert requires resources and they are thus depleting the world's resource.
-The nails to be hammered in may break and demands for replacements, increasing the demand for more resources.
-Getting the singers to come requires invitations. Invitations by pen requres paper which demands for deforestation. Pen shells and ink are produced in factories which release harmful chemicals and CO2 into the atmosphere. Invitations by e-mail drains energy and electricity.
-Electricity needed to run the concert is consumed in huge amounts to run equipment like lighting, electrical instruments, cameras, videos, microphones, turntables, special effects etc etc..
-Getting the singers to come here requires hotels and people in hotels turn on their air-conditioners all the time consuming huge amounts of electricity as well. Having foreign singers also mean air tickets made from paper and encourages deforestation. Travelling by air requires huge amounts of fuel and fuel being burnt releases carbon monoxide into the atmosphere polluting it.
-Having the concert broadcasted all over the world requires satelites launched into space and lauching satalites requires money made from paper and huge amounts of rocket fuel being burnt into the atmosphere and also materials used to make the rocket and the satalite. Some missions result in failure costing more. Satalites also require constaint maintainence and astronauts have to be sent there to repair them costing more. If the mission fails, lives will be lost.
-Clearing the area and cleaning up after the concert also requires man power and this leads to more money being printed from paper increasing the demand for deforestation.
-Singers in warm countries require use of air-conditioning while singers in cooler countries require heating and increases electricity consumtion.
Lastly, Live Earth concerts create noise pollution.

People going to Live Earth concerts:
-Some do not clean up after them dirtying the place. (how ironic lol)
-More food needed meaning more oil needed to cook the food and electricity to start the fires and animals to be slaughted and crops to be harvested.
-More food containers needed and food containers are made of plastic, a non-biodegradable substance. Plastic are also made in factories that release more CO2 into the atmosphere.
-People driving to concerts pollute the air and even more when they drive back home. Some people go makan first thus polluting the air even more and increasing the demand for food.
-More people eating food means that toilets get flooded with people and needs to be flushed and that needs water.
-Some people get high and crazy after the show and they start a stampede and some people get injured and people have to call ambulances wasting fuel and medicine. Some people die too and their bodies have to be buried and there is not enough space and deforestation occurs to make more land. Cremating pollutes the air.
Before and After Live Earth Concerts:
-Concerts and bug events require planning in special rooms with air-conditioning, increasing the rate of electricity consumption. Some meetings also provide water wasting resources.
-Many people were told to wear green on certain days. Wearing green uses loads of resources to make the shirts. Green dyes from certain plants requires man power to harvest them.
-Filming advertisments requires film and again uses resources and money.
-After the whole event, there are people like this thinking of this kinda stuff and it uses brain juice and requires glucose from plants and food and again reducing the world's resources.

And the list goes on..

In conclusion:
Every electrical appliance increases energy consumption.
Every vehicle requires fuel and increases air pollution.
Hydrogen cars release water that causes tsunamis and floods.
Every material used in any way depletes the world's resource.
Every object is made in factories increasing air pollution.
Every need for ambulances increases air pollution and medicine.
Money used in any way requires more printing of money leading to deforestation for need of paper to print on and ink to use and somebody's face to put there..e.g: mine.
Food is needed to feed the people. Consuming meat will make some animals extinct (dodo) and consuming veggies will mean more crops harvested by tractors requiring fuel leading to air pollution where the crops are and they take in the air and your food gets contaminated.
Including people in any of the discussions includes all of the above.

Thats all.