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Live Earth India, a high-profile Mumbai-based event aimed at heightening awareness of climate change, has been canceled ... said an emailed statement from Live Earth founder Kevin Wall, the office of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, & Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ... The hotly-awaited concert .... and was set to feature performances by local and western artists as well as speeches on what Live Earth calls, "the global climate crisis."

Okay, I admit it. I'm having brain cramps today. I must be, because this thing doesn't make sense to me?!?

1. India is a major climate polluter, yet is exempt from the Kyoto Protocol and any and all reduction obligations.
   
2. So... to *fight* (cough) 'climate change' the eco Nazis decide to have a HUGH concert in this major climate polluting country.
   
3. And in order to get to climate polluting India - which is 7,000 miles from anywhre - this gaggle of 'mega stars' would all be flying there in their climate polluting, gas guzzling, PRIVATE JETS.
   
4. Then, when all these mega stars along with their entourage of band mates, roadies, hangers on, etc. finally get there, they'll each set up their own 20,000 pounds of Kilowatt eating electrical music equipment.
   
5. And then ... They'll be setting this Kilowatt eating equipment up on a stage with enough ENERGY EATING lighting and special effects -- THAT COULD POWER A SMALL CITY.
   
6. Then after a few hours of music and insipid speeches on *climate change*, they tear it all down, pack it up, and these mega stars fly 12,000 miles back to wherever on their gas guzzling, climate polluting, PRIVATE JETS.
   
7. Sooooooo, in the end, 'Live Earth India' would really do nothing except ADD more pollution to the air and skies, needlessly eat mega Kilowatts of electricity in climate polluting India -- a major culprit IN *global climate change* -- all so some eco Nazi wackos can have a feel good circle jerk about themselves saving the world.

So I must be having brain cramps as his thing seems completely counterproductive.

Or... I'm okay and these guys are completely nuts!

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You're completely right. They're nuts.

From the Mumbai Mirror just last week: Lights hurt trees (Never mind they may save people)

This tree near the Dadar Catering College on Cadell Road has been the cause of many accidents. It has reflectors nailed to it. More than the thousands of people who die in road accidents in Maharashtra, the state government is concerned about trees feeling pain.

A Government Resolution issued by the Public Works department on September 5 prohibits nailing of reflectors on trees because at a meeting with Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil, social activist Anna Hazare said “trees were living creatures and fixing reflectors on them with nails was not appropriate”.

Records show that 11,935 people lost their lives in road accidents in the state in 2007 alone, and more than 25,000 persons were injured....killing 24 and injuring 145 persons every day - casualty figures much higher than those of terrorist strikes and bomb blasts, as a minister pointed out at the meeting, sources said.

Dr Narendra Jawale of the NGO Man Associates Nature and Jawale Charitable Trust, said, "We welcome the decision taken by the government. The practice of piercing trees to fix nails harms their growth. This has been scientifically proved. It might appear to be a small issue, but we need to be sensitive towards it."