Al Gore has really found his niche. He’s better with activism than politics. And I’m all for raising awareness, a la “Inconvenient Truth.” But I’m truly over the world thinking what really gets my attention is mediocre pop bands begging me to conserve. It’s so insulting, as if I could look at images of Katrina and burning rain forests and say, “Screw that, load up the Hummer.” But as soon as Joel Madden or Randy Jackson says “Yo yo yo, global warming sucks, ya’ll,” I’ll get up off my butt and go green.

Live Earth offends me. They should have taken all the money they spent on the concert, broadcasts, power, gas people spent to travel to it, money spent on snacks and bottled water, and commercial time during the broadcast, and sent a big fat check to scientists working on sustainable energy. That’s cred. Singing “Fergalicious” in front of a live audience while interjecting “Save the Earth!” is lame-o.