Live Earth Celebrities to the Rest of Us: Stop Being You!

Today is another one of those days where the performing elites will assemble on various parts of the planet in support of a cause they know little to nothing about. In so doing they can blame George Bush for whatever it is they’re playing for either not doing enough about it or causing the problem entirely. Take a little from Column “A” and a little from Column “B” for the cause-de-jour, global warming. Yes, just in time for Al Gore’s third unsuccessful presidential run, the superstars of the performing world will bring global warming to our attention by traveling 222,623 miles between them and dumping several tons of fuel (in that it’s been several years since the Battle of Hastings) in the atmosphere and chastising the rest of us for our wasteful ways of life.

Global warming represents one of the most prominent pillars of the faith to the religion of Liberalism and its practice can best be described as “do as I say, not as I do.” The entertainers performing today are hardly environmental stewards, and the concert’s primary organizer is nothing less than a sinner. Gore’s “carbon footprint,” for instance, would require size 23 shoes. His mansion in Tennessee uses more electricity in a month than the average American household does in a year. His natural gas bill wasn’t chump change for the rest of us either: $1,080. What’s more, after making his movie in which he urged Americans to drastically reduce their energy consumption by using less electricity and gas at home (or else!), his personal energy consumption increased! The private jet he’ll be taking to the concert doesn’t exactly run on switch grass either.

It would be interesting if a portion of the proceeds for Live Earth went to cleaning up the environmental damage caused by holding the concerts in the first place. Celebrities are going to be traveling thousands of miles to get to these locations and I guarantee you not one will be taking the city bus. For that matter, they won’t be carpooling or even taking an airliner like the rest of us are told to. The damage to the ozone layer caused by all that fuel from each of their private jets should shame any environmentally and intellectually honest celebrity from coming to this event. This is in addition to other damage inflicted upon the planet such as the Gore-gantuan energy costs and piles of trash left by spectators. Let Melissa Etheridge try and blame that one on FEMA! Of course, this concert isn’t about being honest with the commoners or even being consistent. This is about, like, the environment, man! Oh, and George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

Personally, as I’m not being forced to watch it (yet), I’d rather exercise my right as a consumer while it still exists and watch something else that doesn’t insult me or make me feel guilty about watching it. Like a Lifetime movie. This is yet another excursion in to the world of public policy that celebrities feel entitled to dictate to us about by simply being celebrities. They take up the cause regardless of whether they know anything about it or whether they’re actually part of the problem itself. The likes of John Mayer and Madonna are no more qualified to talk about climate change than George Bush is to talk about music. Wait, who was it that was trying to tell who how to do their job again?