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Burning Man represents everything wrong about the attitude of the United States toward energy and effluent. Energy as the consumption of petroleum to obtain the event incrementally shortens the time period before effective oil peak arrives. Effluent because the event maintains status quo -- if indeed it is "carbon neutral" -- when the overarching need is to reduce the emission of carbon and other climate change gases.
In time Burning Man will burn out because petroleum depletion and climate change will loom too large for ignorance. The willing are invited to www.realclimate.org to better understand the magnitude of accelerating rates and effects of climate change phenomenon.
Wonk-itty wonk wonk! Who peed in your Cheerios? Yes, energy depletion is a serious issue, but people gotta live, man. Burning Man is a celebration of originality and the human spirit of creativity. SOMEBODY was going to burn up all that oil. At least its being used for a worthwhile event.
As much as a peak oiler may like to believe it, life's ultimate goal is not finding the "wisest" use of our natural resources. Your attitude, though technically correct, fails to acknowledge the deep mystery that supports and fills our existence--mystery that Burning Man explores and creates.
You really should go to BM before you judge it. It's like living on another planet. And the attitude change that it can bring about may in fact be worth all the fossil fuels that were "wasted" to make it happen.
But Burning Man isn't an "attitude change". It's not about living sustainably in the desert or anyplace else. People driving RVs to the place and then spending six weeks or whatever... it's a festival of "we've got oil, we'll burn oil, and if you have the oil we require, we'll send troops in to take the oil, and if you don't like that, we'll kill you and your kids, too." RVs use the same amount of fuel as an APC. Alternative? No way. It's the children of the upper middle class consuming just as their parents do, only the clothing and appearances are different.
Worthwhile event? I don't see how.
If you want an example of people living and gathering sustainably, check out a Rainbow Gathering...
http://rainbowguide.info/LinkMaint/LMentry.php?lid=-1
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Bingo! The Rainbow gathering is a lifestyle---
As I said above, this is Suburban Man, with the RV, the pseudo techno fixes--
Suburban man is fun, but an escape from what is actually happening---
The original Baker Beach Burning Man has been 20 years, and this has turned into Disneyland.