Feigning Interest In The State Of The Enviroment Sells Concert Tickets

So I see a few Punk bands (or more appropriately former punk bands) are slated to play at some of Al Gore's "Live Earth" concerts. Right now AFI, The Police, the Beastie Boys, and a commercial pop-punk band who I don't even want to mention, are planning on playing the cross-continental event that is being held in nine different countries. The problem with this concert series isn't the lack of originality (though everything right down to the name seems like a cheap copy of Live 8 and Live Aid), it's the fact that the concerts seem to be nothing more than a ploy to cash in on the fact that people are starting to care about the enviroment. Now this wouldn't be a bad thing if the money actually went to well-known earth friendly cause, but just like Live 8, no money will be given out, instead the concerts are being done to "raise awareness". Jesus christ, who isn't aware about this problem at this point, for gods sake it's been on the cover of Time and Newsweek multiple times within the past year, and there was just am Award winning movie made about it. At least with Live 8 fans didn't have to pay for this "awareness", this time the "awareness" is going into the pockets of the artists and concert organizers. With all the fuel burned on A-list artists flying their private jets to Giants Stadium or Wembley Stadium, it seems as that if anything this will hurt the enviroment. Even The Who, the band who would sell their own mothers into slavery to make a quick buck, have denounced the concerts as nothing more than a cash in.

"The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert. I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel. We have problems with global warming, but the questions and the answers are so huge I don't know what a rock concert's ever going to do to help. Everybody on this planet at the moment, unless they are living in the deepest rainforest in Brazil"- Roger Daltrey

Isn't it sad when Roger Daltrey is the voice of reason?

In 1984 Chumbawamba recorded an anrcho-punk album titled "Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records", in response to the Band Aid project (you know that group of famous musicians who recorded that horrible "Do They Know It's Christmas?" song). Well I guess in 2007 feigning interest in the state of the enviroment sells concert tickets.