With all the talk about how the average person should be doing this or that to conserve energy, why has no one attacked the entertainment industry?

Stick with me for a moment. What I mean is the massive amount of fuel used in vehicle racing (worldwide), not to mention the parts that end up in dumps because they are unusable.

What about the movies that creates more pollution than the average family? Blowing things up, using fuel, wasting other natural resources, and the energy used to produce each work.
What about the music bands, groups, singers who tour using an enormous amount of fuel and energy in their transportation. Not to mention the energy used to power the lighting and sound systems.
What about the massive amount of waste created by the food and drinks consumed at any sporting/entertainment event?

With all of this demanding and babble about what the average person should do, why is it we are not seeing a decline in the entertainment industry? Why no outcry about the energy wasted and pollution caused by our own entertainments?

Even the money itself could be used to work toward a cleaner earth and helping to feed and clothe millions worldwide.

Could it be that the masses are simply being led astray kept in position with mind numbing entertainment while those with the means and power gain even more. Has the greed and self gratification completely taken hold and is destroying the average person from within?

Why do you not hear about protests being held at such events based solely on the greener earth idea?

Any thoughts on this?

Raist

Yes you are right about that. We are more conserned about being entertained. But that is how the higher-ups want it, so we dont pay attention to what they are doing.

If the high-ups shut down the entertainment then there would be alot more resourses for the masses but our focus would shift to them for our entertainment.with the election this year i would call them all actors anyway.this election coverage seems more like a soap opera then anything.I say put a poor man in the presidency and we would have a honest president.He would be happy to do it for minimum wage just to have a job.

Thanks for the input.

I would wager though that even a poor man put into office would not remain honest for long.

I have been thinking about this for some time though with the entertainment industries and energy wasted. I wonder why everyone is so taken with a green earth movement but nothing is said about the waste that goes on that is completely changeable. The amount of fuel that could be saved and pollution that could be avoided is unbelievable in my eyes.

Raist

Bread and circuses, is that how it is in English? Nobody is stupid enough to mess with it. Not to mention that entertainment industry is not the most polluting one.

It is interesting. I remember reading on here that golf courses need several billion(forget the exact number) gallons of water each year to be maintained. Lot of countries could use clean drinking water(hell we could be one of them), but apparently our golf courses are more important.

I agree. I grew up in a pretty heavily wooded area. Spent most every one of my childhood days playing in the woods. I seen the decay, and pests as well, Maybe I’m odd but I thought it was beautiful as well because it was nature at its fullest.

It if funny though that with all of the large animals roaming the land never once did I come across a carcass. Nature also cleans itself up rather quickly and far better than man can do.

Even if it is dirty I still enjoy it better than living in a highly populated area.

Raist

I wonder what the "footprint" of ATS users is? (the amount of time all the users computers being on put together) that would be neat.

Originally posted by ThePiemaker
It is interesting. I remember reading on here that golf courses need several billion(forget the exact number) gallons of water each year to be maintained. Lot of countries could use clean drinking water(hell we could be one of them), but apparently our golf courses are more important.

This might be true for some golf courses, but the ones I lived near in Arizona used re-claimed water. The water was used over, and over, and over.

Same goes for a lot of the car washes in Arizona as well.