But would we have been talking about it at all if Geldof had kept quiet. There has been world poverty and people dying for many years now, even before Geldof came along. What difference would it make to the situation if we all gave up thinking about everything else untill this was resolved.
Maybe you are only able to deal with one thing at once but some of us are quite capable of thinking of several things at the same time.
Should archaeologists stop investigating 'piles of mud' just because something worse is happening in the world?