Nothing says “I love the Earth” like millionaires on private planes jetting off to the nation’s Capitol to hold a massive polluting concert that trashes the place!
Note the extreme irony in the picture below. If recycling and caring for the environment were of paramount importance to the organizers of the event, don’t you think they’d make proper arrangements for garbage/recyclables? Yet it doesn’t seem to be at the top of their list.
scenes from the Earth Day concert on the Mall pic.twitter.com/3kKQOe2qax
— Christine Rousselle (@crousselle) April 18, 2015
Worse still, that’s a lot of Styrofoam in that shot. Plastic too. So many petroleum products!
How many of those headliners flew in on the same plane? Or did they all fly separately?
BACKGROUND: The unfortunate roots of Earth Day.
