Save the earth, by killing it just a little bit more.

Don't get me wrong, the thought behind the "Live Earth" gala is wonderful; inform people about the fact that our earth is dying. There is a problem with that whole approach though; when one of the bands playing at the event have played for around 5 minutes, as much energy as one person spend in a month will have been spent. That seems very hypocritical to me.

Flying artists across the globe
Light on stage
Sound on stage
All the people going to the concerts
All the people watching it on TV at home for 24 (!!!) hours
etc etc

So informing people about this problem is a great thing, BUT there are a lot of other ways that you can inform people without being a hypocrite and spending a LOT of energy yourself. For instance, why not take an already existing show, say for instance American Idol, and make it a "Green" theme show? Or take the money that you would have to spend to make a thing like Live Earth work and put that into creating mandatory education about global warming in every school? Or every network could sacrifice one spot for commercial during their top rated shows for the sake of the planet?
Making a big big show, with concerts at 9 different locations, not even having the artists play at the venue closest to their home but instead flying Xzibit, Rihanna and Linking Park to Tokyo, and having artists like Snoop Dogg that obviously doesn't care about this shit at all, playing at the event, just doesn't make sense...

If it made a significant impact on people, and we will start to see a difference after this, I will take back everything that I just wrote. But if I know humanity right, tomorrow almost everyone will go back to caring more about what Paris Hilton wears than what they can do to save the planet.

Turn your lights off when you're not in the room,
Recycle,
Don't have your electronics standing on standby,
Burn the bra,
Take the bike instead of your car,
Don't use too many plastic bags,
Turn your heat down and buy some warmer clothes,
Use energy saving light bulbs,
Don't use excess amount of water,
Donate money to help other people,
Don't vote for the republicans (please don't),
Believe that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is real,
Don't flush your toilet too much,
Rinse off the inside of milk cartons and throw them with the other paper garbage,
Buy organic food,
Don't believe anything Bill O'Reilly says

(From now on, I will put the text written in Bold at the end of all my blog posts, I might add some more stuff that I would like people to do or not do, follow at least 3 of these demands and you will make a difference)