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The real question is who's going to headline these concerts? :thumbsup:

 

I'd say you can put U2 down in pen, and Springsteen might show up too (hopefully with the E Street Band). Tom Petty, for sure. John Mellencamp will probably offer to play, but hopefully they'll turn him down.

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The real question is who's going to headline these concerts? :thumbsup:

No mention of Mellencamp. Keep crossing your fingers, padawan .. maybe he'll show up.

 

More than 100 artists are performing at Live Earth and they're all headliners. . . .

 

Announced today:

 

Pharrell

Sheryl Crow

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Black Eyed Peas

Bon Jovi

Kelly Clarkson

Faith Hill with Tim McGraw

Paolo Nutini

AFI

Damien Rice

Corrine Bailey Rae

Snoop Dogg

Melissa Etheridge

John Legend

Fall Out Boy

Mana

Keane

Foo Fighters

Lenny Kravitz

John Mayer

Duran Duran

Korn

Akon

Enrique Iglesias

Snow Patrol

Bloc Party

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Humans have too short a lifespan to act on threats that follow a geological timeline. Even 'doom in 300 years' is too long to really concern us, we would rather pretend the problem doesen't exist, and have been doing a pretty good job of it, and there is a more valid question of whether trying to solve poverty and overpopulation is not a more worthwhile use of the resources spent on cutting carbon gass emissions, especially since even under the best case scenario we are only able to postpone the problem.

Bold emphasis mine.

 

There's defintely more than one way to address the problems. I've been grumbling about overpopulation etc. for years. :rolleyes: Overpopulation/poverty, after all, stresses resources etc. ever more.

 

I'm guessing that it's easier to target technology (restrictions), from a worldwide political standpoint, than overpopulation; thus they try to start with the things that may have the least resistance from both the general public and political opponents.

 

Given human nature (so far), it might even be more sensible to focus on space and colonization rather than reductions, if that makes sense. Not that I think that'll actually happen anytime "soon."

“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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The problem with tackloing overpopulation is that YOUR overpopulation is MY strength. Particularly where democracy is concerned.

"It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"."

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tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.

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