Vedder fears for his daughter's America

Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder fears for the future of America and his feelings anger him because he thinks the world will be a terrible place for his 21-month-old daughter after he's gone.

The politically and environmentally-active singer has been an outspoken opponent of George W Bush's presidency and, in a rare interview with American newspaper USA Today, he explains why he's so angry.

He fumes: "I feel our country is being driven down a dangerous road. How do we get our hands on the wheel and out feet on the brakes?

"The whole world changes the day you drive her (daughter) home from the hospital.

"You experience the fragility of life beaming out of your newborn and it projects out into your anger at the way the world is run.

"Globalisation and the love of the bottom line is the religion in corporate boardrooms, and greed puts this whole planet in danger.

"Now that I see it as my daughter's planet, I'm even more (angry)."