Yawn.

Don’t these people have anything better to do? Guess not…

THEY will come from the highest ranks of the pop aristocracy tomorrow, filling stages on seven continents. As part of Live Earth, a planetwide series of concerts meant to encourage all people to live, consume and vote eco-responsibly, they will use their fame to persuade a global audience that climate change is not only an urgent problem but one they can help solve. Madonna. The Police. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Dave Matthews, Bon Jovi, Kanye West, Metallica. And Nunatak.

I would LOVE to see how these filthy rich elites actually live: Are they truly green or are they just gas passing humans like the rest of us? Are they all going to tour together on one big happy jet plane, or does each band have it’s own private affair going on?

Even for the superstars playing Live Earth — which begins in Sydney, Australia, at 10 Eastern time tonight (noon Saturday in Sydney) and proceeds westward to Japan, China, Germany, Britain, South Africa and Brazil, ending tomorrow at Giants Stadium — the size of the crowd will be especially huge. Organizers of the concerts, boasting an elaborate “media architecture” of television, satellite radio and Internet broadcasts throughout the world, say they expect to reach two billion people.

I am willing to bet less than two million people will care enough to watch, attend, go online to hear, this foolishness.

To announce intentions to change the world is to invite criticism, and Live Earth has already been hit by a predictable series of analytical arrows. Environmental bloggers questioned the need for big, energy-gorging concerts. News reports pointed out that performers would be making trips around the world in exhaust-spewing jets, and that some of them (Kanye West, Sheryl Crow) have songs in S.U.V. commercials.

Heh. This is putting politely. These elite folk of the world have little to no intention of changing their personal lifestyles and habits, THAT we can guarantee.

There are things we can do and many of us are doing, to keep our planet clean. But these freaks take it one step beyond this. They’re asking us to change our way of living- on the junk science and fear mongering of global warming.

I believe that Global Warming theories have created a market for products and services- many are expensive and trendy to say the least.Live Earth stands to make a ton of cold but green cash from these concerts and other things. It would be nice to see the rich and famous become true spokespersons for these causes. Instead we hear them roar about the dying planet, and then see them live in planet-resource depleting luxury and it sends the wrong message. Global warming hypocrites.