1. A great pleasure ride. We can eat and drink and drive like no one has ever done before. I think one could consider it a sin if we had the opportunity for so much pleasure, and didn’t take advantage of it. Oil promises that.

2. Invent new energy sources. Could the old energy source of oil help us to invent new energy sources that would not have otherwise been possible?

3. Find a new planet with more oil. Use our current oil supply to resource a fantastic project: the locating of another planet with untapped oil, and the construction of a space ship to get there and transport the oil here, or live there. (Of course if there is oil there, then there must have been life there, or maybe still is. Would we have to buy the oil? Okay, my real opinion is getting a little more than obvious.)

The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours.

Although not directly related to Live Earth, there are a couple relevant sites you might want to check out:

• Earth Charter is “a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Created by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations representing millions of individuals, the Earth Charter seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world. The Earth Charter is an expression of hope and a call to help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history. ”
  
  
• The Earth Portal is “a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs. It contains no commercial advertising and reaches a large global audience.”
  
  
• And as always, there are pledges to be found - the good folks at Avaaz have one which they’re trying to get 50 000 signatures on (27 055 at this point).