Al Gore Is Taking Over The World

This is the inescapable message of the "Live Earth" event scheduled to take place on 7 July this year (7/7/07): a rock concert held "on all seven continents", according to the event website. (I look forward to Coldplay's Antarctic performance.) We are also told that the "global audience gathered for Live Earth [estimated at 2 billion], its ongoing actions, and the proceeds from the concerts, will form the foundation for a new, multi-year international initiative to combat the climate crisis led [by] The Alliance for Climate Protection and its Chair, Al Gore."

What?!

The event's sponsoring organisation is called "SOS". From the list of acts slated to appear so far, this does not yet indicate an ABBA reunion. Nor does it stand for the conventional distress signal, "save our souls", but rather for "save our selves", an altogether more appropriate imprecation for the "me generation". Again, the organisation's website says that "Live Earth alone will engage an audience of more than 2 billion people. That audience, and the proceeds from the concerts, will create the foundation for a new, multi-year global effort to combat the climate crisis led by Vice President Al Gore."

I'm glad they repeated it for me because I couldn't believe it the first time.

I know that whereas "Chair" would once have been a fitting epithet for a man famous for his wooden ways, these days he's hip enough to win an Oscar. But the very idea of Al Gore at a rock concert is itself enough to elicit a giggle. And now the uber-cool do-gooding rock stars are all looking to him to save the world!

Never mind the "inconvenient truth" that, far from being "carbon neutral" (as SOS urges "individuals, communities, states, and corporations across the world" to become), Gore is a one-man CO2 catastrophe. Never mind that the global boiling agenda is flawed, empty, unscientific, hectoring, controlling, nature-worshipping nonsense.

What happens when Gore emerges from "Live Earth" with 2 billion music fans' worth of global, rock-star-sponsored publicity? Will the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" get the job? And, if he does, will the prize hypocrite make us all live off the land until the planet cools down again?