Just read this article about U2's 360 tour.

 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/have-u2-created-a-monster-with-massive-carbon-footprint-of-360-tour-14388326.html

 

I managed to dig up some extra facts:

 

- it takes 5 days to set up U2's 180 foot tall stage

- U2's stage is tranported around in 120 transport trucks

- Since setup takes 5 days, U2 owns 3 stages to compensate for time.

- It costs $40 million to build U2's stage. Keep in mind they have 3 of them. I'm sure $40 million could be put to better use for your humanitarian work, couldn't it Bono?

 

Here's another article:

 

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/111530-u2-puts-plan-in-place-to-offset-its-carbon-footprint/

Well if a $40 million stage makes them more money, they can subsequently spend more money on humanitarian efforts.

 

Who are you to judge? They do plenty of good things, a lot more than most bands.

Who are you to judge?

Cold blooded, but right. :awesome:

Well if a $40 million stage makes them more money, they can subsequently spend more money on humanitarian efforts.

 

Who are you to judge? They do plenty of good things, a lot more than most bands.

 

I am with you Josh.

 

First off, their stage may cost a lot, but the amount they take in from the concerts and make aside from their gigs a lot of it goes to humanitarian work.

the stages are so elaborate so they can give back to their fans and in which when their fans sell out shows, which they often do, it covers the costs right away and they can do lots for the world around them.

 

The trucks may be the only thing not environmently friendly but it's transport and hybrids aren't fully developed yet.

 

Obama flies everywhere, that's not environmentally friendly, yet he is still going for green.

 

Rubbish article, they do enough

Well duh.

 

At least they make something beyond a token effort to donate to charity.

Oh yay, lets go onto the forum and make a thread just to get a reaction and stir up shit.

lol it's true

but not too many people have bothered here...

So I suppose you donate lots of money to charity and don't keep the money you earned working, and yeah you don't use computers, tv, lights,energy in general to be enviromentally friendly (take into accoutn I'm a environment friendly activities close minded fan)

More than $9 million of the profits are being donated to charity, and they have somehow managed the use of alternative transportation and energy to make the tour with less carbon footprints.

 

Just appreciating the beauty of signature :smug:

how do they offset the emissions bono's ego lets out? :thinking:

how do they offset the emissions bono's ego lets out? :thinking:

 

I love Bono but this made me lol.

how do they offset the emissions bono's ego lets out? :thinking:

 

LMFAO

good one!

:sleeping2:

 

 

Interesting opinion piece: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/24/the-trouble-with-a-no-impact-planet/

 

 

I can help but wonder if people have become so obsessed with the idea of the carbon footprint that they've completely missed the trail...

just getting back to topic. i think all this charity talk to justify the carbon footprint of the tour is irrelevant. we all know that U2 does more than anyone else for charity but in reality it has little to do with the environmental impact of this tour. i think that U2 has gone a little overboard with this tour and could do more for the environment at least in supporting raising awareness of the issue. nonetheless you look at the money the tour is pumping into economy and compare it to other companies who are putting in just as much, i think we can safely say that U2's carbon footprint would be much smaller than theres.

 

but i guess i dont really have the evidence to back this.

Well, the PopMart tour was a massive extravagant thing too, but this 360 tour surpasses it.

Europeans spend less energy than Americans anyway, so they kind of have the right to do such huge energy consumptions.

big deal, they contribute, so we shouldn't criticize when it comes to their carbon footprint!

^ Absolutely, leave them alone. Or you'll have some hands with me... :angry::lol:

they do enough and who are we to judge in all honesty?

Take a look at this

 

http://www.u2.com/static/index/index/content/zero_emissions

- It costs $40 million to build U2's stage. Keep in mind they have 3 of them. I'm sure $40 million could be put to better use for your humanitarian work, couldn't it Bono?

 

 

 

i think this is a very important point. U2 could still sell just as many tickets without using such an extravagant set. unless they feel that their music by itself cant bring the audiences.

who cares!!

Well if a $40 million stage makes them more money, they can subsequently spend more money on humanitarian efforts.

 

Who are you to judge? They do plenty of good things, a lot more than most bands.

 

this!

 

Just appreciating the beauty of signature :smug:

 

:smug:

Well if a $40 million stage makes them more money, they can subsequently spend more money on humanitarian efforts.

 

Who are you to judge? They do plenty of good things, a lot more than most bands.

 

This.

Shock horror the biggest band in the world are not environmentally friendly!

 

Tell me something I didn't know

^loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool :cheesy:

 

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