8000 pounds of trash on the east shore of Lake Tahoe on Fourth of July. There was no rain storm . people are losers and idiots no matter where they are. At least they paid for their tickets and there’s a plan to clean it up. When it’s an emergency or disaster, Guess what happened?s. The government pays for the cleanup. Stop being sensational.
GOD HAS WARNED THESE PEOPLE. ITS NOTHING BUT SODFOM AND GOMORAHA. THIS IS THE MORALS OF THE UNITED STATES GODS PUNISHMENT WILL BE BY WAR. HE IS SICK OF IT. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO BE.PURIFIED.
"They aren't real Burners" No, dude. They ARE the real Burners. They care about the planet until they gotta lift a finger to clean up after themselves. Then it all goes out the window.
@MrHand-ih4sz I saw "real Burners" cleaning up, but of course that's not gonna be shown on the news and my friends and I put away our phones for the week so we couldn't get it on video. I saw people with trash bags hunched over in the rain digging through the mud looking for the smallest trash: bracelets, bottle caps, batteries, etc. I even saw a guy grab a bottle cap that had fallen into a urinal. I think most people there try to leave no trace. At least that's been my experience.
@IZACK1 that's been historically reported as true and I think it's pretty unfair to report on this in this way. It would be like judging a neighborhood for being dirty the day after a hurricane. How does anyone expect people to do a perfect cleanup job when they were stranded in rain and mud, and had to shelter in place for days. It's not like they abandoned cars for fun.
This is why I stopped going. You could see the deterioration of the spirit in 2000. Before that the campers still pretty much respected the desert. Now it is all about image and saying you were there as opposed to actually being there.
It was $575 a ticket. Just for the ticket, not the transportation cost or food for several days. Some spent thousands of dollars to go to this. this has turned into a party for a bunch of rich spoiled brats. Not surprised at all that they left a mess.
They have a low income ticket program that people can apply for. I've gotten my ticket through that every time. Before they raised the ticket by 50 bucks this year it was $250. The vast majority of the population of Black rock city aren't rich. Even paying full price, I know a ton of people who have done the event for under $700-$800.
Wow that’s absurd! I don’t remember there being an admission fee for Woodstock back in my day! Fast forward 50 years, I would like to think that the small town of Black Rock would profit from this for their own community and those who are less fortunate than others. Events this large around small highway towns deserve a huge share in the profits.
Most of the ppl complaining about this don’t care at all about the trash. Probably don’t even recycle themselves. They’re just jealous of the ones wealthy enough to go 😂
6 miles taking 9 hours? You can easily walk that in 2 hours (if you're able). And that was with 10 lanes of traffic? What were they doing? Did too many people fall asleep at the wheel?
The country is a bit naive in not getting a cleanup bond from the organisers. Here in Australia, festival promoters have to lodge a million dollar bond in escrow to cover the cleanup after we had a similar situation in Byron Bay to years ago, which was flooded out stranding 100,000 fans in a sea of mud.
The festival organizers haven't left yet. We do not know that they've left any of the attendees trash behind. I'm betting it will be cleaned up eventually.
Pretty much standard with any event in America, mainly by insurance policies though, which makes the festival responsible for damages, which includes not cleaning up. And you wont get a permit without insurance We have a 500,000 policy for a weekend event of 500 people in my town. I am betting they have a 100 million.
@@Fred-tj3lm It's permitted by BLM. If they don't pass inspection, they don't get a permit for the following year. So, if people think it's an "environmental catastrophe", or whatever, they need to take it up with the Bureau of Land Management....they issue the permits, every year.
"The country is a bit naive in not getting a cleanup bond from the organisers" They do, and it will be cleaned up by the cleaners like it is every year. You have been sucked into fake news like a sucker...
You sound like me. I like to go camping and I have a camper so I can shower, be comfortable and enjoy my vacation. I can't be a sweaty, dirty, smelly person. 🤢
I can’t fathom ever doing anything like that! It’s absolutely ridiculous. Their whole point and purpose of this can be achieved on a daily basis in their own neighborhoods! Self reliance and helping others.
They have makeshift showers and you bring baby wipes. All the people on Segway, ebikes and eboards zipping around at night looked like a great time. But there are far too many people for my liking, and the sacrifice element isn't my thing. A lot of people there dealt and had a good time.
Words of wisdom. If you've never gone mudding it's easy to underestimate how easy it is to get stuck and how hard it is to get unstuck, especially in a vehicle that's not designed to deal with mud.
Time for you to stop making erroneous assumptions. After the cleanup crews are finished the site is restored to pristine spotless condition and there will be no trace.
If there's anything I am certain of, it's that most people are pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning up after themselves. That's why you see so much trash everywhere. There is trash EVERYWHERE you look because people can't be bothered to put it into a trashcan.
Yes, and an even bigger problem is the ENORMOUS amount of trash dumps all around the world where trash is disposed of properly. Pretty soon there's not going to be anywhere to put any trash.
have you ever considered that having "trash" might be the problem in the first place? think back to tribal days, the only "waste" we had still got converted into fertilizer. no wrappers. no disposable hand wipes. one time use plastic toothpicks? yeah right. single serving this pre packaged that where did we lose our ways? and before you morons start on me, YES I USE THIS STUFF TOO BUT IM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES AND THE ONLY WAY TO FULLY ESCAPE IT IS TO JOIN THE AMISH AND IM JUST NOT READY FOR THAT but i dont buy paper plates, cups etc. i try to reuse every piece of plastic i encounter somehow. i showed my work how to dissolved packing peanuts before throwing them out. we just need less people "yolo"ing and more people caring.
I'm a manager at one of the Reno rent-a-car maintenance shops. We are already getting notices from our roadside dept that people are leaving our cars out there. Mud is everywhere on our lots. I'm curious what the environmental impact of alkaline lake bed mud strewn hundreds of miles in every direction from there is.
@@howardj602 consider also - if it rained then there are now traces of motor oil and rust, ceramic from the brake pads/rotors, copper, grease from the steering components, bits of rubber and whatever else may have you also now leaked all over that lakebed. anybody stupid enough to dig their car in deep enough to bury the exhaust pipe is infusing the soil with CO. go figure, guess i now know where the term "dirty hippie" comes from.
very limited Edit: let's also not talk like there is a radius of hundreds of miles of mud. there will be small amounts of mud here and there on the narrow, paved strips we call roads. I get it tho, you see the majority of the mud as ur team cleans it from the undercarriages.
They won't. It's much sexier to judge people who have been stranded for days. Next up, we should visit a town struck by a fire or hurricane and talk about how the people living there are so gross because they couldn't clean up their town the day after the natural disaster.
The even is given a permit by the Bureau of Land Management...if they don't clean up the area, they wouldn't permit them to do it. I don't think BLM would give the permit if they caused any environmental damage....I mean, that's their job, right?
@@sarahbrown5073 yeah it's almost like every other year in the events history everything has been fine... The playa has seen rain before tho, and it is still here, and the moop will be cleaned. most of the people commenting are totally ignorant
For those that support this festival but hate hearing this story about trash being left... read the environmental impact report from any of the recent years. This wasn't a one time thing, and the fees collected that are supposed to make you feel like a proper cleanups are done are far from effective and adequate. There are numerous reports showing the organizers and officials claim the impact is minimal or zero, while independent environmental agencies have thrown evidence in their faces showing otherwise, with no changes made. Even the roads leading to the event have been studied showing a significant increase in trash during the event timeline.
Based on your reporting, I would say that Burning Man's time has come and gone. It should be cancelled. Local officials should inform the organizers it is no longer what it once was and they don't want it on their land anymore.
This isn’t the Burning man of years ago. This is the ultra rich, ego driven, CEO, pretend to be enlightened crowd of selfish trash. The same thing can be said of Overland Expo
@@mcap8396 They actually do. Moop Fairies do a really good job of cleaning it up. The environmental impact is not "all that significant" mostly it relates to the commodities consumed, and the actual burns. Burning Man has somewhat less impact than your average similar sized sporting event.
"Leave no trace, those aren't real Burners anyway" doesn't cut it anymore when it's this size and has become the new Coachella. Make it a ballot system to attend with a hard limit on numbers, and on numbers of vehicles. The lake and its wildlife are being irreversibly damaged
@frankroberts9320 yup, the org has leeched enough to live comfortably for several lifetimes. They probably will never do one at this location again and keep it to regionals.
@@wholeshebang1 How do they end up with this many attendees and vehicles under that system. They should be bused in or better yet choose another location, they're destroying a desert lake
crazy how this is the first year anything like this has happened, it is almost like there was an abnormal weather event that made things very difficult...
My sister and her late husband went to Burning Man for many years. The failure to live in accordance with "Leave Nothing Behind" is a disgrace! The organizers are responsible in my opinion. They should demand all attendees sign a legally binding promise to take everything out with them... no matter what the weather conditions. That's called "keeping your word". Shame on the organizers and shame on the attendees who thought only of themselves not of the larger world in which they live.
I mean... they've been stranded in rain and mud for days, and the festival is barely wrapping up. I think it's a little unfair of the media to report it this way. Cleanup never happens in one day. I've heard they come back for a few weeks and clean consistently until it's all done.
@leonel2009ish She's right. I have been one of those people who stayed behind. There are volunteer workgroups that drive out on weekends to help, and at least a few stay for the entire month of the clean-up.
The organizers could demand a hefty deposit payable in advance from attendees before the event. I'm fairly sure that 99 percent of burners have more than two nickels to rub together. If everything is picked up/no trace was left at the attendee's campsite, then the deposit is returned.
see my entire 36 year life ive always thought burning man was a massive hippie liberal love art drug fest. self reliance? where does that even pretend to fit in...
So much for "leave no trace". It's all fun and games until it isn't. Make sure the cameras are running so we can all see you pat yourselves on the back, then slip out quietly out when it's obvious that you're worse than the rest of us.
They leave a mess like this EVERY year !!! Burning Man should be banned...I'm not sure which government agency is in charge of this desert land but they need to crack down on this. The desert is a very delicate ecosystem and must be protected.
I live in Reno, the gateway to the Playa where Burning Man happens. It makes me very sad that the 54,000 to 70,000 people left a complete mess out there. The, "Burners" (is what they are called) usually leave absolutely no trace behind. Honestly, two weeks after they leave, you can't tell where they have been.This is pathetic, shameful, and a complete disregard to the pristine desert.
Send the bill to the owner-organizer...after all, the outrageous camping fee was, in most cases, numerous hundreds and upwards of thousands per camper.
Leave no trace. I like it but this is anything but. How many noxious fumes emitted by those RV’s and trucks idling for 10 hours? Quit saying you leave no trace, that is a lie.
It's not like it's any better in the real world, where people commute to work 45 minutes each way and use tons of plastic and buy cheap stuff from China that they throw away after a month.
I went to Burningman from 1996 to 2000 and once again in 2005. I never, ever, ever left garbage at my site. In addition, I always offered rides to folks who were in need of help. Not sure what is going on today, as I will never go back, but I guess since it became trendy, this was expected. On the other hand, I had great time in 1996 in the mud.
Anyone who has been in a public restroom lately should not be surprised by this video! Nobody in America has any concern for the next guy. This is a “self-absorbed” society through and through.
They leave literally tons of garbage before and after every single year. When they get their supplies at the grocery store on the way the stuff goes in the cooler the packaging goes all over the parking lot. That guys a lier they leave tons of garbage, cheap RVs and bikes every year since it started. I saw it every year as I lived where they have to go through to get out there.
Your comments should have WAY more likes than it does. I am an ex-Californian who is disgusted by what REALLY goes on and gets "hidden" or ignored by the media or others who choose to remain hypocritical and fake.
@@sabigalli6344 Thanks. And that's probably why it doesn't. It's them type of people watching I guess. Why like something that lets the cat out of the bag as they say.
One might say the same thing about the hundreds of thousands who attend NFL, baseball and basketball games. Does one really NEED to attend games in person, with the accompanying parking woes and outrageously expensive ticket prices and concessions? I can watch the same event from the comfort of my living room on my huge TV and nice sound system without worrying about needing to take out a second mortgage to pay for parking, tickets and a brewski or two at the game.
I've always thought that this is a GARISH EGOIC event. Now, more than ever!! Yes. Thank you, the conscientious sacrificers/per clean-up. Shame on you - selfish/self-absorbed trashers.
You're just jealous, like I am, we're not part of that cool crowd, ha ha. You couldn't PAY me to attend, much less expect ME to pay! Like the free concerts I vaguely recall attending in Golden Gate Park, way back when, it was a good deal at first, but got blown up into....too much.
If the BMORG wants to keep their cash cow going.... They will clean up the mess made by the newbys that panicked and left everything behind. I don't feel bad for the organization at all. They don't want the old timers around because they can't tell them what to do. Looks like they aren't having any luck with the supposed obedient newbies either. Burning Man lost it's cool factor after about 2006 in my opinion. After 17 years I gave up in 2015. Too many clueless people out there now.
Totally Agree, it's a Ecological Disaster. Shame Cause 10 years ago it was Something Else. In New Orleans we have Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds, if it rains , the shows are canceled... Burning Man was Something Else ; now its Popularity might have doomed it. ☆ The Art Should Continue NOT the Destruction
Folks, we live in the Instagram world where people attend events solely for their instagram posts. These people are doing this to sporting events, concerts, theatre, resorts etc. They drive up ticket prices, don’t respect the long term attendees/fans, don’t respect norms, traditions and policy. They ruin the experience for others. Example, a 24 time Burner was asked to move so someone could take a picture of a piece of art. The Burner said no, you can’t take my enjoyment of this art away from me until I’m done. Anyone who knows anything about Burning Man is you leave no trace. The real burners stayed behind to clean up. The posers left.
THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ABANDON THEIR STUFF, THEY HAD TO LEAVE FOR FOOD , MEDICINE, JOBS, FAMILY, ITS NOT LIKE THEY CAN PUT MUD FILLED TRASH IN THEIR HOMES , THEY ARE ALREADY TAKING ON EXPENSIVE DAMAGE TO THEIR VEHICLES SO UNDERSTAND MOTHER NATURE, AND STOP BEING CRUEL TO BLAME PEOPLE,
I was sort of hoping they never made it out because people like that are worthless in my eye. I'm to harsh but you know what, this country needs to be a little more harsher on people but we just keep getting softer on idiots. Go figure.
I thought that your not allowed to rent a vehicle for burning man. I heard that rental places make you sign something around the time of burning man saying that your not going to take this rental to burning man. It's because of the cost and time involved to clean the vehicle or RV. The desert sand gets everywhere and the renters leaves it a complete mess.
These are the 'hippies' of yesteryear. They did the same thing at Woodstock in 1969. They had a great time and left a massive mess behind. They claim peace and love, and love for the environment, but their actions show their narcissistic dark side.
True colors come out finally how these people really leave Black Rock City. They can't hide it anymore and we already knew they leave the space a mess. This event will not happen again I will bet anyone how much ever they want that it will not happen again. Lames
1:59 *Is that a freakin ‘dresser unit’ from someone’s bedroom?* Who the heck hauled that large piece of unnecessary furniture to the desert for their tent? I highly doubt they had any plans to take it back home. 😂😂
They do this every year. They have massive preparations before the event and at least a month long maybe 2 of clean up to pass BLM inspection for next years event.
This littering is nothing new with this festival,it occurs every year. Garbage left behind is not unique to this group,ever camped on public lands before?
Silly idea; BM knows whois camp is who's. Anyone leaving trash behind should be required to reimburse BM as well provided proof that they volunteer 6+ hrs of cleanup at another festival before attending BM again.
Yall , the Damage to the Environment is likely to Cause a HUGE INCREASE in future Leases of the Area and Substantially higher Insurance rates. In New Orleans Two Festivals I use to work with were Canceled for similar reasons. If the local Authorities don't cancel BM, they will price them out of existence. Both Voodoo Festival and Buku Festival suffered similar fates
@@MemesAndLs Festivals Operate with such Slim Margins, that Burning Man is probably Toast or it will have to Sell Out to Live Nation or another Corporate Event planner...
Surprise! Leave no trace? A lot of people are just so self centered that they don’t worry about their messes. Shout out to those who stay and clean up after.
It’s because nobody is held accountable. You make sacrifices to hold these events, either make a strict list of stuff you can bring to adhere to, have Check ins of stuff you have brought to the event, or if it continues to happen then there won’t be an event all together. You might hate it but… that’s what happens when there’s no accountability
With as much coverage as Burning Man received, I would hope that come next year, the people responsible for issuing permits would remember all the trash and pollution the festival goers left and not issue permits for future Burning Man events. However, with short term memories and some "greasing of the palms," we'll be back to the same old song and dance.
When you have a crowd, you will always have those who would shout the slogan or mantra, but carry no understanding or care for it. They're just in it for the party and the chicks.
You seriously expect people to clean up the day after a natural disaster? Should we go yell at Hawaii because they have debris and abandoned cars everywhere?
You know, it wasn't as bad as the media is making it out to be. Most of the people who got stuck did so after being asked to remain in camp and to not drive until the playa, what we call the dry lake bed on which the event is held, dries back out, which it does fairly rapidly after rain like this. I was there and work in Traffic Ops so I do kind of have the inside story here. The media found the worst of the worst and has portrayed it as true for the entire event site-wide. I drove off playa yesterday, having finally been able to go off shift, and only passed one stuck vehicle, a truck and trailer. The driver clearly drove outside the marked lanes provided and paid the price. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes. If only they had followed instructions, you know? Also, there was no Ebola, no cannibalism, no dysentery, and FEMA never showed up so don't believe the rumors and hype the media have promoted. LOL Most of the people who got stuck during Exodus did so because they willfully disregarded strong urging to stay in place in camp and NOT drive on the playa until it had dried sufficiently to do so safely. They panicked and, well, people are dumb panicky animals. When we see one person flipping out, we tend to do the same thing. If you read the Survival Guide and paid heed to what it said prior to making your preparations, you would know to not drive on wet playa. Heck, don't walk on it unless you absolutely have to. It sticks to everything very thickly and dries like concrete. Those who got stuck will likely have to pay to be dug out of the playa. Last I heard before I left yesterday is that the usual tow companies that service Burning Man weren't going to do that until things dry out well because they don't want to get stuck themselves.
Never judge people by what they say, judge them by what they do.
So you say, do you
Thats the class in washington on asian studies. Never whats said what they do..all about face..
These are the people that push global warming
I won’t judge you by your comment 🙂
8000 pounds of trash on the east shore of Lake Tahoe on Fourth of July. There was no rain storm . people are losers and idiots no matter where they are. At least they paid for their tickets and there’s a plan to clean it up. When it’s an emergency or disaster, Guess what happened?s. The government pays for the cleanup. Stop being sensational.
Shout out to those who stayed behind to clean up the mess.
Because when the going gets tough.....those libertarians, at the end of the day are just like republicans....they are selfish.
@TrumpisAmazing sounds like Portland
true festivarians there!!!
@TrumpisAmazingLA lives rent free in your head.
GOD HAS WARNED THESE PEOPLE. ITS NOTHING BUT SODFOM AND GOMORAHA. THIS IS THE MORALS OF THE UNITED STATES
GODS PUNISHMENT WILL BE BY WAR. HE IS SICK OF IT. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO BE.PURIFIED.
The true Burning man is a thing of the past. This is the dawn of the new age of narcissism and absurdity. 🎉🎉
Bingo
spoken like a true someone who has never been to a burn and knows nothing other than what the media talking parrot points are LOL
True - it’s gotten too big, too crowded, and too expensive 💵. Mother Nature said, “Enough, fools!”
Ah, yes! It was so much cooler when I did it... before it got commercialized and lame!
It's always been narcissistic nonsense. They take a break to play communism for a week then return to their cushy capitalist lives.
"They aren't real Burners"
No, dude. They ARE the real Burners. They care about the planet until they gotta lift a finger to clean up after themselves. Then it all goes out the window.
Best comment here
yup
I bet no one left their phones behind.
@MrHand-ih4sz I saw "real Burners" cleaning up, but of course that's not gonna be shown on the news and my friends and I put away our phones for the week so we couldn't get it on video. I saw people with trash bags hunched over in the rain digging through the mud looking for the smallest trash: bracelets, bottle caps, batteries, etc. I even saw a guy grab a bottle cap that had fallen into a urinal. I think most people there try to leave no trace. At least that's been my experience.
@IZACK1 that's been historically reported as true and I think it's pretty unfair to report on this in this way. It would be like judging a neighborhood for being dirty the day after a hurricane. How does anyone expect people to do a perfect cleanup job when they were stranded in rain and mud, and had to shelter in place for days. It's not like they abandoned cars for fun.
This is why I stopped going. You could see the deterioration of the spirit in 2000. Before that the campers still pretty much respected the desert. Now it is all about image and saying you were there as opposed to actually being there.
and wearing cliche 'burner' outfits apparently..
But, but look at my fur coat, nose ring and braids. Did you get a picture? What about my tattoos and funky quirky hat. Did you see those too?
@@lewasil Baaaaaaaaaa!..
Agree. Honestly, I think the racist LA people and snobs ruined Burningman.
1996 to 2000 were the best years for me. So much freedom and 1996 was an amazing year....God, that was a great, great Burn.
It was $575 a ticket. Just for the ticket, not the transportation cost or food for several days. Some spent thousands of dollars to go to this. this has turned into a party for a bunch of rich spoiled brats. Not surprised at all that they left a mess.
They have a low income ticket program that people can apply for. I've gotten my ticket through that every time. Before they raised the ticket by 50 bucks this year it was $250. The vast majority of the population of Black rock city aren't rich. Even paying full price, I know a ton of people who have done the event for under $700-$800.
It’s always been that way. The only thing that made it better before was that they would sell less tickets. 🎟️💰💰💰
Wow that’s absurd! I don’t remember there being an admission fee for Woodstock back in my day! Fast forward 50 years, I would like to think that the small town of Black Rock would profit from this for their own community and those who are less fortunate than others. Events this large around small highway towns deserve a huge share in the profits.
Most of the ppl complaining about this don’t care at all about the trash. Probably don’t even recycle themselves. They’re just jealous of the ones wealthy enough to go 😂
you got it! such a disgusting amount of privilege on display
ppl who can’t pick up their mess are selfish and gross.
they always clean the area up, they will this time also.
@@KGRICK1 pick all that poop up. Get all those plastic bags and trash packed into the mud. I bet you got an answer for everything don't you?
@@KGRICK1not the ones that left. They are entitled, and will let the plebs clean up.
@@KGRICK1"they"? Who is they, exactly? The filthy hippies that actually LEFT THE MESS and drove AWAY? Get a clue, *insert your pronoun here*
They need to ban people that dont clean up there stuff
Just goes to show, you can go miles out into the desert for an event and theres STILL too many people with hours of traffic to sit through
Well yeah
And how the bicycles were still the most efficient around the traffic 🙃
whats funny was most of the liberals were stuck in traffic because other liberals were blocking the road protesting
Duh?? Its a festival buddy
6 miles taking 9 hours? You can easily walk that in 2 hours (if you're able). And that was with 10 lanes of traffic? What were they doing? Did too many people fall asleep at the wheel?
The country is a bit naive in not getting a cleanup bond from the organisers. Here in Australia, festival promoters have to lodge a million dollar bond in escrow to cover the cleanup after we had a similar situation in Byron Bay to years ago, which was flooded out stranding 100,000 fans in a sea of mud.
The festival organizers haven't left yet. We do not know that they've left any of the attendees trash behind. I'm betting it will be cleaned up eventually.
Pretty much standard with any event in America, mainly by insurance policies though, which makes the festival responsible for damages, which includes not cleaning up. And you wont get a permit without insurance We have a 500,000 policy for a weekend event of 500 people in my town. I am betting they have a 100 million.
@@Fred-tj3lm It's permitted by BLM. If they don't pass inspection, they don't get a permit for the following year. So, if people think it's an "environmental catastrophe", or whatever, they need to take it up with the Bureau of Land Management....they issue the permits, every year.
The organization cleans it up every year, as required by the government agency that manages the land.
"The country is a bit naive in not getting a cleanup bond from the organisers"
They do, and it will be cleaned up by the cleaners like it is every year. You have been sucked into fake news like a sucker...
Burning man sounds like a stinky, horrifying experience. I couldn’t imagine wanting to go to this, ever, for anything.
You sound like me. I like to go camping and I have a camper so I can shower, be comfortable and enjoy my vacation. I can't be a sweaty, dirty, smelly person. 🤢
I can’t fathom ever doing anything like that! It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Their whole point and purpose of this can be achieved on a daily basis in their own neighborhoods! Self reliance and helping others.
@@kcwyo not you not see the thousands of campers?
You're right. Don't go, Burning Man sucks.
They have makeshift showers and you bring baby wipes. All the people on Segway, ebikes and eboards zipping around at night looked like a great time. But there are far too many people for my liking, and the sacrifice element isn't my thing. A lot of people there dealt and had a good time.
Never judge a rich priveledged concert goer by their Mecedes they left behind stuck in the mud at Burning Man
Words of wisdom. If you've never gone mudding it's easy to underestimate how easy it is to get stuck and how hard it is to get unstuck, especially in a vehicle that's not designed to deal with mud.
I hope the state judges and fines them. Leaving behind all that worthless trash 💸
@@bwofficial1776 this was supposed to be satire. So, judging by your comment... It's really great satire. It's a joke on rich people
It's obvious you have never been to Burning Man, and you are a keyboard geek who feeds from social media haters.
concert? no sir, the word you're looking for is "burn"
"It was a great burn until it rained"...one of the most profound things ever said at burning man.
"It was like a great party, man, until the cops showed up"
You mean drowning man! 😂
A close 2nd was, when 300lb. man shouted, where's my pink G-string?
@@pavlovdogs1178 🤣
Not that profound actually
Leave no trace.. right? Time for this event to end for good.
Time for you to stop making erroneous assumptions. After the cleanup crews are finished the site is restored to pristine spotless condition and there will be no trace.
If only there was a way to like check the weather in advance of going out to a giant desert dry lake bed...
like literally
Those who left trash are exactly the kind of people who ruined it.
I would bet that majority of them are far right mor.ons who never cared about the environment
Ruined what? A drug festival 🤦♂️
Liberal hippies.
Everyone that was present had to leave something im sure every body missed something
My guess that dead body that was found was a drug overdose .
Really surprised 70,000 people could leave behind any trash
No one could have predicted this!
Trash leaves trash
And abandoned dogs,dead bodies.
@@donlarocque5157 where else do you put them?
I thought these people are supposed to be self sufficient???
If there's anything I am certain of, it's that most people are pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning up after themselves. That's why you see so much trash everywhere. There is trash EVERYWHERE you look because people can't be bothered to put it into a trashcan.
Yes, and an even bigger problem is the ENORMOUS amount of trash dumps all around the world where trash is disposed of properly.
Pretty soon there's not going to be anywhere to put any trash.
have you ever considered that having "trash" might be the problem in the first place?
think back to tribal days, the only "waste" we had still got converted into fertilizer.
no wrappers.
no disposable hand wipes.
one time use plastic toothpicks? yeah right.
single serving this
pre packaged that
where did we lose our ways?
and before you morons start on me, YES I USE THIS STUFF TOO BUT IM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES AND THE ONLY WAY TO FULLY ESCAPE IT IS TO JOIN THE AMISH AND IM JUST NOT READY FOR THAT
but i dont buy paper plates, cups etc. i try to reuse every piece of plastic i encounter somehow. i showed my work how to dissolved packing peanuts before throwing them out.
we just need less people "yolo"ing and more people caring.
Imagine if houses had glass walls. So many people live in messy, hoarded places. It's no wonder they don't clean up after themselves in public places.
That is a fact.
I'm a manager at one of the Reno rent-a-car maintenance shops. We are already getting notices from our roadside dept that people are leaving our cars out there. Mud is everywhere on our lots. I'm curious what the environmental impact of alkaline lake bed mud strewn hundreds of miles in every direction from there is.
@@howardj602 consider also - if it rained then there are now traces of motor oil and rust, ceramic from the brake pads/rotors, copper, grease from the steering components, bits of rubber and whatever else may have you also now leaked all over that lakebed.
anybody stupid enough to dig their car in deep enough to bury the exhaust pipe is infusing the soil with CO.
go figure, guess i now know where the term "dirty hippie" comes from.
Cars are garbage after. Especially after the dusty times.
The next time rent horses 🐎
So. Let the fees stack up. It's the customers responsibility to return the cars.
very limited
Edit: let's also not talk like there is a radius of hundreds of miles of mud. there will be small amounts of mud here and there on the narrow, paved strips we call roads. I get it tho, you see the majority of the mud as ur team cleans it from the undercarriages.
Sadly this event seems to have outgrown itself.
County should halve the permitted attendees next year.
20 years ago.
They all do 👍
No way . Money talks .
It's been hijacked by modern day yuppies.
I’m sure I can count on NBC to do a followup on the cleanup in a month or so.
They won't. It's much sexier to judge people who have been stranded for days. Next up, we should visit a town struck by a fire or hurricane and talk about how the people living there are so gross because they couldn't clean up their town the day after the natural disaster.
And I thought those people cared so much about nature.
environmentalists are usually the best at trashing places
@@NotHappening-b8t The environmentalists were trying to stop them from entering. These weren't environmentalists.
The even is given a permit by the Bureau of Land Management...if they don't clean up the area, they wouldn't permit them to do it. I don't think BLM would give the permit if they caused any environmental damage....I mean, that's their job, right?
@@sarahbrown5073 yeah it's almost like every other year in the events history everything has been fine... The playa has seen rain before tho, and it is still here, and the moop will be cleaned. most of the people commenting are totally ignorant
How many burners are joe biden supporters. Trashy burnouts, definitely ridin with biden.
For those that support this festival but hate hearing this story about trash being left... read the environmental impact report from any of the recent years. This wasn't a one time thing, and the fees collected that are supposed to make you feel like a proper cleanups are done are far from effective and adequate. There are numerous reports showing the organizers and officials claim the impact is minimal or zero, while independent environmental agencies have thrown evidence in their faces showing otherwise, with no changes made. Even the roads leading to the event have been studied showing a significant increase in trash during the event timeline.
"Trash DURING the event timeline"?!? But was that 'trash' there a week later? NO, it was not. They cleaned up every time
They did not
Based on your reporting, I would say that Burning Man's time has come and gone. It should be cancelled. Local officials should inform the organizers it is no longer what it once was and they don't want it on their land anymore.
This isn’t the Burning man of years ago. This is the ultra rich, ego driven, CEO, pretend to be enlightened crowd of selfish trash. The same thing can be said of Overland Expo
@@mcap8396 They actually do. Moop Fairies do a really good job of cleaning it up. The environmental impact is not "all that significant" mostly it relates to the commodities consumed, and the actual burns. Burning Man has somewhat less impact than your average similar sized sporting event.
"Leave no trace, those aren't real Burners anyway" doesn't cut it anymore when it's this size and has become the new Coachella. Make it a ballot system to attend with a hard limit on numbers, and on numbers of vehicles. The lake and its wildlife are being irreversibly damaged
coachella is a POS also...
just gather them all up into one more huge event.
wall it off.
and leave them be.
@frankroberts9320 yup, the org has leeched enough to live comfortably for several lifetimes. They probably will never do one at this location again and keep it to regionals.
@frankroberts9320 I hope so. Reno resident here. Never been to BM (bowel movement)
@princekareem - Tickets are available through a *lottery system,* and *vehicle passes* are *limited* and cost extra.
@@wholeshebang1 How do they end up with this many attendees and vehicles under that system. They should be bused in or better yet choose another location, they're destroying a desert lake
Destroying the playa and mass littering, those people are truly the worst.
Might be time to end the festival
crazy how this is the first year anything like this has happened, it is almost like there was an abnormal weather event that made things very difficult...
I guess you missed the part about the flood,
My sister and her late husband went to Burning Man for many years. The failure to live in accordance with "Leave Nothing Behind" is a disgrace! The organizers are responsible in my opinion. They should demand all attendees sign a legally binding promise to take everything out with them... no matter what the weather conditions. That's called "keeping your word". Shame on the organizers and shame on the attendees who thought only of themselves not of the larger world in which they live.
"legally binding" - lol.. who is, and how are they, supposed to enforce that?..
I mean... they've been stranded in rain and mud for days, and the festival is barely wrapping up. I think it's a little unfair of the media to report it this way. Cleanup never happens in one day. I've heard they come back for a few weeks and clean consistently until it's all done.
@@ucsbgirlie18 sure 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@leonel2009ish She's right. I have been one of those people who stayed behind. There are volunteer workgroups that drive out on weekends to help, and at least a few stay for the entire month of the clean-up.
The organizers could demand a hefty deposit payable in advance from attendees before the event. I'm fairly sure that 99 percent of burners have more than two nickels to rub together. If everything is picked up/no trace was left at the attendee's campsite, then the deposit is returned.
Doesn’t surprise me about the trash left behind. Some people just don’t care. I saw videos of the shores of Lake Tahoe after July 4th, same thing.
Same people, too.
And burning man is supposed to be about self reliance ! Disgusting !
see my entire 36 year life ive always thought burning man was a massive hippie liberal love art drug fest.
self reliance? where does that even pretend to fit in...
So much for "leave no trace". It's all fun and games until it isn't. Make sure the cameras are running so we can all see you pat yourselves on the back, then slip out quietly out when it's obvious that you're worse than the rest of us.
They leave a mess like this EVERY year !!! Burning Man should be banned...I'm not sure which government agency is in charge of this desert land but they need to crack down on this. The desert is a very delicate ecosystem and must be protected.
💰💰💰💰? Also, the powers have all read The Prince. Give the plebs festivals and sporting events.
"Those aren't real burners" With tickets costing over $500, none of you are "real burners".
Exactly!
Not very good stewards... these people are all talk. Time to shut this party down permanently.
Time for you to mind your own business and not worry about it.
@@dingusdingus2152 And you are? Move on down the road jr.
Burning Man has become way too famous for it's own good
I never heard about it until now.. not my gig
I live in Reno, the gateway to the Playa where Burning Man happens. It makes me very sad that the 54,000 to 70,000 people left a complete mess out there. The, "Burners" (is what they are called) usually leave absolutely no trace behind. Honestly, two weeks after they leave, you can't tell where they have been.This is pathetic, shameful, and a complete disregard to the pristine desert.
All she filmed was a few soiled rugs. If it’s truly massive there would be whole camps of leftover crap.
WTH are you talking About? This happens every year. Not only on the Playa but, on the Road to Gerlach and beyond.
I have seen video of the area after previous Burning Mans. They leave trash behind. It is a lie they don't.
They just barely left we need to give them time to do the Moop Sweep
I guess being a liberal ain't what it used to be.
Millenials who went to Burning Man must be proud of themselves for turning a section of a dry lake bed in to a trash dump.
Send the bill to the owner-organizer...after all, the outrageous camping fee was, in most cases, numerous hundreds and upwards of thousands per camper.
No. Regular tickets were $575. A fee of $150 per vehicle.
@@williamwolf2844 - gotta be a rich kid to even think about paying that kind of money.
@@jackiemartling5321 people lay out that kind of $$ for sports events all the time.
@@anncoxwell7015 - yeah, I guess so. People are maniacs.
Leave no trace. I like it but this is anything but. How many noxious fumes emitted by those RV’s and trucks idling for 10 hours? Quit saying you leave no trace, that is a lie.
It's not like it's any better in the real world, where people commute to work 45 minutes each way and use tons of plastic and buy cheap stuff from China that they throw away after a month.
Likely there will not be another one. I doubt future permits will be issued.
I went to Burningman from 1996 to 2000 and once again in 2005. I never, ever, ever left garbage at my site. In addition, I always offered rides to folks who were in need of help. Not sure what is going on today, as I will never go back, but I guess since it became trendy, this was expected. On the other hand, I had great time in 1996 in the mud.
Anyone who has been in a public restroom lately should not be surprised by this video! Nobody in America has any concern for the next guy. This is a “self-absorbed” society through and through.
The protestors on burning ma was right, this event should be cancelled.
They leave literally tons of garbage before and after every single year. When they get their supplies at the grocery store on the way the stuff goes in the cooler the packaging goes all over the parking lot. That guys a lier they leave tons of garbage, cheap RVs and bikes every year since it started. I saw it every year as I lived where they have to go through to get out there.
Your comments should have WAY more likes than it does. I am an ex-Californian who is disgusted by what REALLY goes on and gets "hidden" or ignored by the media or others who choose to remain hypocritical and fake.
@@sabigalli6344 Thanks. And that's probably why it doesn't. It's them type of people watching I guess. Why like something that lets the cat out of the bag as they say.
why would this type of behavior surprise anyone? people are rotten to the core…..
They were evacuating you crazies. I'm sure they want to come back for their stuff.
@@curiousnomadic Right. Those mud-covered rugs are definitely on someone's retrieval list.
Awww Ren, you know it.
Don't forget: No good deed goes unpunished.
HAPPY! HAPPY! JOY! JOY!
The walking dead and they’re unaware of their own death.
@@franprudhomme4506 Everyone not preparing for global warming or doing something to stop it are the walking dead.
Is anyone else disturbed on an existential level that the preferred nomenclature for attendees is “burners”?
Should be "burnouts" most of them mouth breathe and have weird tics from the years of psychedelics
Considering all the gasoline that got burnt by the participants driving to and from it, seems ironically accurate to me
@@andyl7547 why the hate? What did any of these people ever do to you to deserve the hatred?
A couple of rugs and a folding chair is a "massive cleanup" ?? Sounds like a slow news day.
Festival goers trash the desert and surrounding roads every year not a new story at all.
"Theyre not real burners..." No, anyone who paid for a ticket is a "burner".
Anyone who attended the festival needs a good look at their priorities
One might say the same thing about the hundreds of thousands who attend NFL, baseball and basketball games. Does one really NEED to attend games in person, with the accompanying parking woes and outrageously expensive ticket prices and concessions? I can watch the same event from the comfort of my living room on my huge TV and nice sound system without worrying about needing to take out a second mortgage to pay for parking, tickets and a brewski or two at the game.
I hope they get it cleaned up.
Never understood Burning Man anyway.
If I go to the Nevada desert it’s to get a little solitude…
Now do a story about spring break literally every year bc they can’t use garbage cans
I've always thought that this is a GARISH EGOIC event. Now, more than ever!! Yes. Thank you, the conscientious sacrificers/per clean-up. Shame on you - selfish/self-absorbed trashers.
You're just jealous, like I am, we're not part of that cool crowd, ha ha. You couldn't PAY me to attend, much less expect ME to pay! Like the free concerts I vaguely recall attending in Golden Gate Park, way back when, it was a good deal at first, but got blown up into....too much.
Mirth...
"Not real burners" lol. Burning Man has been a bloated caricature of itself since long before people started flying there in private jets.
If the BMORG wants to keep their cash cow going.... They will clean up the mess made by the newbys that panicked and left everything behind.
I don't feel bad for the organization at all. They don't want the old timers around because they can't tell them what to do. Looks like they aren't having any luck with the supposed obedient newbies either.
Burning Man lost it's cool factor after about 2006 in my opinion.
After 17 years I gave up in 2015.
Too many clueless people out there now.
Lets be honest. Over 70,000 people in that environment and only 1 death. Good odds actually.
if the sheriff has to pick it up, I’d say they really burned The Man
Totally Agree, it's a Ecological Disaster. Shame Cause 10 years ago it was Something Else. In New Orleans we have Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds, if it rains , the shows are canceled... Burning Man was Something Else ; now its Popularity might have doomed it. ☆ The Art Should Continue NOT the Destruction
😂
It's that alkaline in the mud that put new meaning to burning man!😂
Very CLEVER! 😂
Good one🤣
Folks, we live in the Instagram world where people attend events solely for their instagram posts. These people are doing this to sporting events, concerts, theatre, resorts etc. They drive up ticket prices, don’t respect the long term attendees/fans, don’t respect norms, traditions and policy. They ruin the experience for others. Example, a 24 time Burner was asked to move so someone could take a picture of a piece of art. The Burner said no, you can’t take my enjoyment of this art away from me until I’m done. Anyone who knows anything about Burning Man is you leave no trace. The real burners stayed behind to clean up. The posers left.
Leave no trace until you get to a Walmart then you see what these phony people really leave behind
While I've never been to one, I bet the early years of Burning Man saw much more responsible campers.
THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ABANDON THEIR STUFF, THEY HAD TO LEAVE FOR FOOD , MEDICINE, JOBS, FAMILY, ITS NOT LIKE THEY CAN PUT MUD FILLED TRASH IN THEIR HOMES , THEY ARE ALREADY TAKING ON EXPENSIVE DAMAGE TO THEIR VEHICLES SO UNDERSTAND MOTHER NATURE, AND STOP BEING CRUEL TO BLAME PEOPLE,
I honestly feel ZERO ZERO Pity for these people, I actually want to laugh at them 😂😂😂
I feel zero pity for any democrat.
I was sort of hoping they never made it out because people like that are worthless in my eye. I'm to harsh but you know what, this country needs to be a little more harsher on people but we just keep getting softer on idiots. Go figure.
@@darkzer0670Democrat's deserve to have all the Darwin awards yay
@@HECKLEFISH.what's with the complete lack of empathy from people these days
I am having trouble renting a car to visit my daughter in Reno this week because these selfish people left them in the desert.
I thought that your not allowed to rent a vehicle for burning man. I heard that rental places make you sign something around the time of burning man saying that your not going to take this rental to burning man. It's because of the cost and time involved to clean the vehicle or RV. The desert sand gets everywhere and the renters leaves it a complete mess.
Sounds like a lot of free stuff for those who hang around.
People who love crowds are the messiest people in the world.
These are the 'hippies' of yesteryear. They did the same thing at Woodstock in 1969. They had a great time and left a massive mess behind. They claim peace and love, and love for the environment, but their actions show their narcissistic dark side.
Burners are not hippies.
Canel this primit , its GAME OVER .
Tribal land. They don't need permission from anyone.
Who let u out of the asylum
Those who scream hardest about the climate are the first ones that would destroy it
This looks like the last burning man at this location. People can't keep calm in inclement weather they should never go out.
The news is full of hype and bs.
Burners seem to be BIG hypocrites…”Do as I say, not as I do”.
I've been to the Burning Man site many times (not during the event). No sign humans were there. No trash.
That's because cleanup takes weeks. This is such unfair and sensationalized reporting with zero research.
True colors come out finally how these people really leave Black Rock City. They can't hide it anymore and we already knew they leave the space a mess. This event will not happen again I will bet anyone how much ever they want that it will not happen again. Lames
Ah Burning Man, the poster child for why our world is in the state it is climate-wise. Having a hard time mounting any sympathy for them.
1:59 *Is that a freakin ‘dresser unit’ from someone’s bedroom?* Who the heck hauled that large piece of unnecessary furniture to the desert for their tent? I highly doubt they had any plans to take it back home. 😂😂
I wouldn't expect anything less from the types of individuals who would find that event attractive.
Glad you’re not my neighbour.
@@jamespeters2859 me too.
"They are not real burners anyway."---------- Wow talk about deep and profound!
It was the most amazing burn, don’t listen to the news it’s fake
They do this every year. They have massive preparations before the event and at least a month long maybe 2 of clean up to pass BLM inspection for next years event.
the 1s on push bikes boasting how it only took 30min to get out are most likely some of the people who left their stuff behind
Or it’s in an RV.
Are they not giving this WAY to much airtime.....
Distraction of some sort 🤔
This littering is nothing new with this festival,it occurs every year. Garbage left behind is not unique to this group,ever camped on public lands before?
Maybe those highway road blockers were right. Hippies always leave a mess.
Silly idea; BM knows whois camp is who's. Anyone leaving trash behind should be required to reimburse BM as well provided proof that they volunteer 6+ hrs of cleanup at another festival before attending BM again.
Or six hours of community service cleaning up trash along roadways in messy neighborhoods!!
half of camp lose their licenсу every year
Yall , the Damage to the Environment is likely to Cause a HUGE INCREASE in future Leases of the Area and Substantially higher Insurance rates. In New Orleans Two Festivals I use to work with were Canceled for similar reasons. If the local Authorities don't cancel BM, they will price them out of existence. Both Voodoo Festival and Buku Festival suffered similar fates
Sure😂 next year their revenue would be cut in less than half
@@MemesAndLs Festivals Operate with such Slim Margins, that Burning Man is probably Toast or it will have to Sell Out to Live Nation or another Corporate Event planner...
Cancel it indefinitely
Cancel culture is a right wing ideology
No, but cancel you. That’d be a benefit to the entire world.
The reason people go to burning man is to have fun and get away from judgmental jerks like you for a few days. It's quite cathartic.
You know who wasn't there anyone with common sense
Why the hate? What did any of these people ever do to you to deserve the hatred?
Surprise! Leave no trace? A lot of people are just so self centered that they don’t worry about their messes. Shout out to those who stay and clean up after.
There are several thousand who stay behind and clean up. I have a feeling a few thousand more will come back and do the same.
So the "leave no trace" is a lie then. It means the burners trash the desert and about 5% of them stick around to clean up.
It’s because nobody is held accountable. You make sacrifices to hold these events, either make a strict list of stuff you can bring to adhere to, have Check ins of stuff you have brought to the event, or if it continues to happen then there won’t be an event all together. You might hate it but… that’s what happens when there’s no accountability
With as much coverage as Burning Man received, I would hope that come next year, the people responsible for issuing permits would remember all the trash and pollution the festival goers left and not issue permits for future Burning Man events. However, with short term memories and some "greasing of the palms," we'll be back to the same old song and dance.
When you have a crowd, you will always have those who would shout the slogan or mantra, but carry no understanding or care for it. They're just in it for the party and the chicks.
Looks like a lot more than just a few... this is who Burners are.
so 80% of the goers?
I would say that description fits about 98% of the human race.
What do they expect from elites with money to burn
how about don't give them a permit to be there anymore?
Sometimes saving the planet is messy.
and muddy
Who is saving the planet and how?
Burners don't care. Look at how they treated the environmental protestors before the burn. They are just selfish libertarian trash.
@@jestertryna8956
Everyone except burners.
What’s funny is how self righteous these people are about cleaning up after themselves.
no. their self righteous about cleaning up YOUR mess. they try to ignore their own.
You seriously expect people to clean up the day after a natural disaster? Should we go yell at Hawaii because they have debris and abandoned cars everywhere?
@@ucsbgirlie18Well said!
Gets more coverage than the Hawaiian wildfire
There is non stop coverage of Hawaii. Change the channel if you want to watch that.
Bra
What wildfire?
You don't care about Hawaii. You just care about 'owning the libs'
Who's the dork talkin? It was a great burn until it rained. God wins!
Bunch of weirdos.. why couldn't it just STAY flooded?
those nut cases who barricaded the road told you not to go in there didn't they
Amazing !
leave no trace ??? what a joke
Maybe they will learn from this never do this ever again
after they spend the next 2 weeks bragging on social media about how they survived the storm like warriors.
You know, it wasn't as bad as the media is making it out to be. Most of the people who got stuck did so after being asked to remain in camp and to not drive until the playa, what we call the dry lake bed on which the event is held, dries back out, which it does fairly rapidly after rain like this. I was there and work in Traffic Ops so I do kind of have the inside story here. The media found the worst of the worst and has portrayed it as true for the entire event site-wide. I drove off playa yesterday, having finally been able to go off shift, and only passed one stuck vehicle, a truck and trailer. The driver clearly drove outside the marked lanes provided and paid the price. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes. If only they had followed instructions, you know? Also, there was no Ebola, no cannibalism, no dysentery, and FEMA never showed up so don't believe the rumors and hype the media have promoted. LOL
Most of the people who got stuck during Exodus did so because they willfully disregarded strong urging to stay in place in camp and NOT drive on the playa until it had dried sufficiently to do so safely. They panicked and, well, people are dumb panicky animals. When we see one person flipping out, we tend to do the same thing. If you read the Survival Guide and paid heed to what it said prior to making your preparations, you would know to not drive on wet playa. Heck, don't walk on it unless you absolutely have to. It sticks to everything very thickly and dries like concrete. Those who got stuck will likely have to pay to be dug out of the playa. Last I heard before I left yesterday is that the usual tow companies that service Burning Man weren't going to do that until things dry out well because they don't want to get stuck themselves.
Pretty typical. The good ole "i didnt plan accordingly but someone else can clean it up for me" situation
These people need to be charged for clean up. Ban burning man for the environmental impact.
1:58 Who took their grandmas 1970s sideboard to Burning Man and left it in the desert?