Live 8 is a waste of time.

[mateus]

Yeah, you heard me, Live 8 is a waste of time. I watched about ten seconds of it before coming to this conclusion. I was first under the impression that Live 8 was some kind of charity event, perhaps raising money for foreign aid to the impoverished African nations, but it is not that at all. Live 8 is a free concert designed to raise awareness of

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[anonymous]

Yeah, last I checked, starving Africans can't eat awareness.

Serb

[delocon]

This is why I don't generally get involved in humanitarian causes, I have no hope in the human race. We are self destructive to the extreme.
At first I thought Live 8 was a benefit concert as well, when I heard it was actually a free concert, showing mostly has beens, I pretty much lost all interest.
The west has enough food, enough resources, enough manpower to end the poverty of the entire world. However, they won't for the same reason you said, our power, is based in exploiting their weakness.
I spend my time in enviromental causes and thats where I stay, not because I want a better world for my children, but because I have these pipe dreams that the world might manage to outlive us.

[elfiende]

Can't you see..they plan on bring it all down around our ears.