Still they come. And they bring their innocent children to this hedonist hell weekend.
Revellers line up in a sodden, rubbish littered que to brush their teeth and get water.
Glastonbury, the world's biggest open air arts and music festival, has made environmental issues a pillar of the three-day event by launching its I Count campaign to stop climate change.
The target is for 100,000 festival-goers to sign up at the festival, which has a line-up of hot rock bands, comedians and circus performers at a farm in rural southern England, and each attendee gets a We Can Stop Climate Chaos wristband.
"We've put a lot of effort into focusing Glastonbury on the environment and climate change this year," said festival organiser Michael Eavis, who was recently given an award for services to music by Queen Elizabeth.
"We hope to see at least 100,000 new supporters sign up to the I Count campaign and I'll be the first to put my name down," the 71-year-old bearded organiser and campaigner said.
Lucy Pearce, I Count campaign manager, described it as creating a "massive, popular, irresistible movement for change".
John Sauven, representative for Greenpeace, described climate change as a "man-made disaster" and urged people to make "personal" changes in their lives as well as "putting as much pressure as we can on governments to act".
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