Monday, May 01, 2023
At a Carbon Neutral Music Festival, We Gain More Than We Lose
consequence.net: Before you arrive at a music festival, you might spend hours in a long line of cars inching towards the bored parking attendants who organize lots so large they’re visible from low orbit. After walking through the long maze of vehicles, you’ll arrive at your first garbage receptacle, perhaps already piled high with plastic water bottles, each made with fossil fuels (about 8% of the world’s petrochemicals go to plastic), and most of which could have been recycled but won’t be. Recycling is expensive — just getting everything off the ground and bagged is hard enough — and so even more-sustainable aluminum cans are likely headed for the trash heap.
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As someone who both cares immensely about the environment and who has been getting more into live music as of late I was very excited when I found this article. I feel like so often it is assumed that big events and concerts can only be detrimental to the environment but that is simply not true. One of the largest points that I feel can be implemented easily is that of location. With so many music festivals often taking place in out of the way areas, travel becomes one of the most polluting elements of music festivals and concerts. Though people will always travel to see their favorite musicians and musicians have to travel to get to the venue they are performing at, setting music festivals in more populated areas is a start to creating more carbon neutral music festivals and concerts. I hope this article can act as an inspiration to what environmentally friendly entertainment can look like in the future.
Theo Kronemer
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