So we all know about the 112-minute documentary about Michael Jackson's rehearsal footoge is coming out in a couple of weeks. The pre-sale tickets for this highly exploitative documentary have already broken records, bumping Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring from the number 25 spot in the Top-25 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time. And now the people behind the documentary are predicting a $250 million dollar haul in its first five days.
This got me thinking: not about how influential he was to the world or how people all over the world know his name, but rather how fucking big his carbon footprint must be.
Seeing as a carbon footprint is "the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product," his footprint goes beyond all the obvious things like his private jet excursions and fancy neverlands and the like. There are so many material goods put into production because of him. Just one guy has spawned a plethora of, well, stuff. If someone really wanted to calculate the total number of GHGs in the atmosphere right now because of MJ, they'd have to go beyond the millions of albums created and sold because of him, beyond the number of sold-out concerts and the production that went into them (let's not forget the production that went into his elaborate music videos), and beyond all the gas that was burned-up for people buying the aforementioned albums and for the concert attendees to make it to his shows. So much energy went into creating figurines, clothing, memorabilia--just a bunch of shit. So much shit exists in this world because of him. He's on walls, lunchboxes, magnets, bedsheets, schoolbags, clothing, video games, not to mention all the things he's on that's currently residing in trash dumps.
Yes, he will be remembered for a long time. We have his GHGs to prove it.
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