…and I agree with that critique. The whole LiveEarth thing was in my opinion highly questionable on all accounts and I feel sorry for all those really striving towards a better future.

Lately it sounds like environmentalism and sustainability are becoming a fad and everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Most of those actually should really just start with – the the old saying- “practice what you preach ” and  as we tend to say here: A better world starts with yourself.  Jonah Golberg put this into a column of which the introduction is hilarious if it wasn’t actually probably quite accurate and therefor sad.

‘IF YOU WANT to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down. Come on, mother-[bleepers]!” Madonna railed from the stage at London’s Live Earth concert Saturday. “If you want to save the planet, let me see you jump!”

You just can’t beat that. What else could capture the canned juvenilia of a 48-year-old centimillionaire — who owns nine homes and has a “carbon footprint” nearly 100 times larger than the norm — hectoring a bunch of well-off, aging hipsters to show their Earth-love by jumping up and down like children?

Read the rest of ‘Live Earth: Dead on arrival‘ by Jonah Goldberg