Have any of these lunatics stopped to consider that maybe, just maybe, things like CO2 and other by-products of living, are natural?  That just because we've so sanitized our lives that things don't smell any more, that it's now the new natural to be anything but au natural?

It's just sad. Or will be when this homicidal rage subsides...

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Live Earth isn't one iota about saving the earth and controlling the climate. It is all about making money. Lining Al Gore's pockets. Nothing more, nothing less. The mark-up on hotdogs and hamburgers (bottled water, soda, beer, etc, etc, etc.) for this event is going to be a huge money maker, not to mention the merchandising with CDs, stickers, T-shirts. The almighty dollar.

Anyone that can think should be able to understand that a huge rock concert (or 8 of them) is about as environmentally unfriendly as you can get. Massive amounts of electricity, fuel spent to get there (artists as well as attendees), litter, torn up lawns (if held in open fields), fuel/electricity to cook/cool food served there, etc. The whole idea of a rock concert to raise environmental/anthropogenic global warming awareness is full of hypocrisy!

This is all about money!!!

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

Other issues they must deal with:

The guitars must be banned  - they are plastic and made from petro-chemicals

The lights must be off - obviously

The t.v. signal to the satellite must be shut off - - -The satellite and its launching into space used an enormous amount of energy

All metal products must be banned - the energy used for mining issue.

The concert should have nothing more than Al Gore naked, alone in an open field, shouting.

Here I come to save the daaaay!  - - -Al Gore singing the Mighty Mouse song

Noel:

Rather than worry about meat at the Live Earth concerts, my suggestion is that the few remaining deniers climb aboard a bus (a short bus ought to do) and head to Phoenix or Las Vegas where you can cook your burgers on the sidewalk in 125 degree heat.  You can take your time in getting there because there is no end in sight to the current, unprecidented heat wave.  Then, head on down to Texas and wash your burgers down with some of their endless floodwaters.  Again, no rush.  Severe flooding is expected to continue unabated for the foreseeable future. 

If you are feeling international, take a trip to India where you can help put to rest the hundreds of people who have been killed in a "worst in 25 years” monsoon season there.  http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/2007-07-05-02.asp  They don’t eat beef in India though, so have your delicious barbeque before you go.

Later this summer, why not equip the bus with radar and do a little tornado chasing across the Midwest?  There ought to be hundreds of tornados to choose from.  Be careful though.  If our short bus deniers get swept up by a tornado, there would be no one left to protect the interests of the rest of us!

:)  Dave High

What about all that trash? Plasitc bottles, glass, etc.

A bonafided and certified member of the beer guzzling, NASCAR watching middle class.

I'm a member of PETA and the statements in the article go directly against all they stand for and espouce.

The "greehouse gasses" that the "meat" industry mostly emits are the flatulant products of the animals themselves. The way to reduce the emisions is to eat the animals.

P.E.T.A. - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

Mica something - Now wait just a dad-gummed minute.  My guitar doesn't have a single lick of plastic on it and It is, without a doubt, the finest electric guitar in the world bar none!

It is a Gibson Les Paul Custom.  It has a solid mahogany body with a rosewood fingerboard that has mother-of-pearl insets.  The pick-ups and tuning keys are plated with 18 K gold.  the stripe around the body is bone.

Of course the whiney panty-waist guitar players of today would think it was "too heavy" or wasn't cool enough.  Well, it was cool enough for the likes of Jimmy Page and David Gilmour!!!