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> Burning Man organizers say they are making an effort to be > greener. In their 2023 sustainability report, festival > organizers celebrated their recent s

> Burning Man organizers say they are making an effort to be > greener. In their 2023 sustainability report, festival > organizers celebrated their recent successes: launching pilot > programs for solar panels, offsetting their emissions through > purchasing carbon credits, and supporting sustainability-minded > camps as they work towards their goal of becoming > carbon-negative by 2030. What a crock of shit! They're literally constructing and deconstructing a shanty-town capped at 80,000 people, hauling all that material, in and out (what they don't just burn/explode), every.year. When will this circus get its act together and just build an actual city? This whole event is wasteful down to its core, it's literally the whole point. Leave No Trace means Haul it all in, and Haul it all out. Buy some land and put down some roots and skin in the game you clowns.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I agree with you, but I hope you realize that your request is both impossible and illegal; Burning Man has always been held on BLM land, and so even if they wanted to purchase a parcel of land to party every year, it would have to be somewhere way different from where it is now.
- pengaru 3y ago
  Burning Man's origins are not BLM land, it evolved into the black rock city it is today. This shit started in SF[0] and kept outgrowing its location. There are so many attendees burning(heh) so many resources on this event every year, if they just got their shit together they could buy enough desert land for an actual city. But that's not a fun childish party with no obligations, that's adulting. It's asking too much of clowns who can't even prevent their furry trikes and hexayurt insulation panels from falling off their overheating RVs. I don't expect them to improve. It's just useful to imagine what it looks like for these people to actually clean up their act. And it doesn't involve erecting and tearing down black rock city every year. It involves making it permanent and solving Hard Problems. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society#San_Francisco_chapter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society#San_Francisc...

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

I agree with you, but I hope you realize that your request is both impossible and illegal; Burning Man has always been held on BLM land, and so even if they wanted to purchase a parcel of land to party every year, it would have to be somewhere way different from where it is now.

pengaru 3y ago
Burning Man's origins are not BLM land, it evolved into the black rock city it is today. This shit started in SF[0] and kept outgrowing its location. There are so many attendees burning(heh) so many resources on this event every year, if they just got their shit together they could buy enough desert land for an actual city. But that's not a fun childish party with no obligations, that's adulting. It's asking too much of clowns who can't even prevent their furry trikes and hexayurt insulation panels from falling off their overheating RVs. I don't expect them to improve. It's just useful to imagine what it looks like for these people to actually clean up their act. And it doesn't involve erecting and tearing down black rock city every year. It involves making it permanent and solving Hard Problems. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society#San_Francisco_chapter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society#San_Francisc...