'Rock stars," says Homer Simpson wonderingly. "Is there anything they don't know?" Making agreeable music was once thought to be an end in itself. Now, singers aim at nothing less than the salvation of the planet.
Coldplay had the splendid idea of planting trees to drink up the carbon emitted by their activities. Sadly, as we report today, most of the saplings sent to India's sparse soil perished from lack of care. At least they avoided the mistake made by Sting, who once gave a swathe of rainforest to its indigenous inhabitants, only for them to begin logging and mining on an unprecedented scale.
There is a lesson here, one that the millions who jump up and down at Live8 concerts should heed, namely that good intentions are not enough. The men in grey suits who, unlike musicians, have gone to the trouble of getting themselves elected to something, may know a thing or two after all.
Source: telegraph.co.u
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