I've seen a number of articles saying environmentalists trashed the National Mall during the Earth Day concert. Sure the National Mall was trashed. But in their quest to discredit environmentalists they missed one big point: The Earth Day Concert on the National Mall was a fake Earth Day event that no true environmentalist would ever attend or support.
The reality is the Earth Day Concert attendees were almost exclusively people who just wanted to see a bunch of big stars for free. These people didn't care that the concert was a false front that was being sponsored by some of the worst environmental offenders on the planet including Citigroup/Citibank, Toyota, and Caterpillar.
What did the concert have to do with Environmentalism? Absolutely nothing. It requires you do absolutely nothing useful for the environment. In fact, the site even had a link encouraging people to reserve parking spaces in advance in this extremely public transit accessible area.
The concert was essentially a brainwashing effort in getting people to believe in a version of environmentalism that is so diluted its worthless. Which is exactly where companies such as Citibank need to get you, to help fund their environmentally destructive projects and that Toyota needs to get you buy one of their stupid useless SUVs they sell to brain dead soccer moms and overcompensating men.
So is it then surprising that the people who attended the concert ended up trashing the National Mall? No, not really. Obviously, its shameful, but it was a concert funded by selfish corporations attended by selfish people. Selfish people who couldn't actually be bothered to actually do anything useful for the environment during the weekend prior to Earth Day.
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