The organizers of tomorrow's Live Earth concerts hope that the
entire world will hear a crystal clear message: Climate change
is the most critical threat facing the planet. Planned by former
US vice president Al Gore, Live Earth will be the biggest, most
mass-marketed show of celebrity activism in history. But making
global warming the world's top priority means that we shuffle
other major challenges down our "to do" list. Some climate
change activists actually acknowledge this: Australian author
Tim Flannery recently told an interviewer that climate change is
"the only issue we should worry about for the next decade." Tell
that to the 4 million people starving to death, to the 3 million
victims of HIV/AIDS, or to the billions of people who lack
access to clean drinking water. Human-caused climate change
deserves attention -- and it has gotten it, thanks to Gore,
Flannery and others. Even before a single note has been played
in the "awareness-raising" concerts, much of the developed world
believes that global