i'd just like to point out to anyone confused that BLM there means Bureau of Land Management, referring to areas the federal government manages, like conservation areas and big mineral deposits. Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert Wilderness, a nature preserve in Nevada.
want to hate this shit even more? tickets to this thing are $425 and the average cost of attendance is around $2400 per head when considering things like travel and camping supplies. Not to mention a lot of people go there in an RV. The closest airport is a two-hour drive away, but a lot of attendees drive in from San Fransisco, which is a 6 hour drive.
Billionaires also regularly attend, usually in incredibly fancy RVs with stuff like jacuzzis or will simply fly a private jet there. In 2017 a bunch of Google employees shipped a box of lobsters to event. An art instillation at the 2007 burning man involved exploding 900 gallons of jet fuel into a huge mushroom cloud, which somehow was meant to protest over-reliance on oil. Every burning man event leaves hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles littering the area.
The 2022 Burning Man had a sculpture that read "We are the Climate Problem" that has to be some kind of sick ironic joke. 87% of burning man attendees are white.
i'd just like to point out to anyone confused that BLM there means Bureau of Land Management, referring to areas the federal government manages, like conservation areas and big mineral deposits. Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert Wilderness, a nature preserve in Nevada.
So these hippy weirdos are shitting up a nature preserve? Great.
want to hate this shit even more? tickets to this thing are $425 and the average cost of attendance is around $2400 per head when considering things like travel and camping supplies. Not to mention a lot of people go there in an RV. The closest airport is a two-hour drive away, but a lot of attendees drive in from San Fransisco, which is a 6 hour drive.
Billionaires also regularly attend, usually in incredibly fancy RVs with stuff like jacuzzis or will simply fly a private jet there. In 2017 a bunch of Google employees shipped a box of lobsters to event. An art instillation at the 2007 burning man involved exploding 900 gallons of jet fuel into a huge mushroom cloud, which somehow was meant to protest over-reliance on oil. Every burning man event leaves hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles littering the area.
The 2022 Burning Man had a sculpture that read "We are the Climate Problem" that has to be some kind of sick ironic joke. 87% of burning man attendees are white.
They are also tapping out the communities aquifer