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Looks like the new trend among Green knowitalls is to scold others for not saving the planet, and then:
“When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says ‘I’m a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint”,’ [Sting's wife Trudy Styler] said.
She then asked: “Are we being hypocritical?’ before seeming to answer the question herself.
“He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge.
“I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It’s a difficult one.”
Neat trick, huh? Instead of making people try to wrap their heads around some lame, twisty excuse for your hypocrisy, you just flat-out admit it. Somehow, apparently, that makes it all okay. (Works for Arianna too. Or does it?)
Do they really need to do all that galavanting around? Sting must have more than enough money to last the rest of his life, no matter how many Tuscan estates he buys. Isn’t it just his ego keeping him out there, spewing far more than his fair share of carbon into the atmosphere and, if what he says is correct, helping to destroy the Earth? Does she really need to fly her chef 100 miles just to make her a bowl of pasta? Aren’t they really just two more rich, pompous jerks who don’t know what they’re talking about?
i wish someone would stomp a carbon footprint on mrs. sting’s cosmetic surgery-laden face…what a bunch of phony twits.
Good points, as usual! While I can accept a life-plan that includes making restitution in many beneficent ways to make up for what you use, speaking from once living on the inside of the music entertainment biz, concerts are one of the most energy-crunching activites you can imagine. From tour busses running constantly outside the venue from arrival to departure, to all the extravances in between, the energy and product waste is astronomical. In all fairness, the entertainment biz does create many jobs for many creative people. But pointing out the rampant waste it propagates does put the greenie-fingerpointers in the music biz in a very unflattering light, that they now have to either cover up or make ammends for in the public eye.
They don’t have to make amends to me. If celebrities would just shut up that would be enough.
A consistant philosophy of fighting global warming i would be for Sting to STOP touring, release all his performances ONLY via DVD or broadcast (Internet, Radio, TV, Cable) and start hammering his own peers (The Stones, U2, etc.) to do the same as their travelling is part of the over mobile, over energy consuming culture. If he really believed it.
[ Isn’t it just his ego keeping him out there, spewing far more than his fair share of carbon into the atmosphere and, if what he says is correct, helping to destroy the Earth? ]
No, it’s not. He and The Police have a huge fan base. Venues around the world sell out completely every time he tours as a solo act or with The Police. So while they’re damaging the environment, the economic benefits of their travel, performances and oversall success also directly and indirectly help thousands (if not tens of thousands) of people make a living.
Being green isn’t about not having any impact on the environment, unless you’re a total radical. It’s about being aware of your impact and doing what you can to minimize that impact while balancing it against the realities of life.
Which they’re doing by…
(Oh, and manufacturing SUVs provides a lot of jobs too, doesn’t it? Building houses and strip malls employs a lot of people, no?)
I didn’t know The Police had a huge fan base. Whoda thunk it.
I am so tired of being told (scolded actually) how to live and how to give by people who do not walk the walk. These 2 snobs should just be mindful of their own lives and quit haranguing the rest of us. That goes for Bono too.
I just can’t help but notice Trudy’s boobs squished together is this pic. No one that old should have boobs that look like that. And they are HUGE hypocrites!!!!! so smug….
oh please. every interview with these people that doesn’t involve tantric sex is a blessing. that said, no-one needs a 750 person crew to play bass and sing poorly. what a putz.
Ya know, if she’s such an earth friendly person they had better be some soy based plastic boobies in there. Those implants are going to hang around L O N G after she has passed- vanoty and hypocrasy thy name is Trudi methinks…