Britain’s Daily Mail has a nice round-up of what they call “hippy-crites,” celebrities who want everybody else to ride the bus while they fly around on private jets.
- Chris Martin of Coldplay has convinced himself he’s offsetting his heavy private jet usage (100,000 miles per year according to one estimate) by paying to have mango trees planted. It’s science! Incidentally, Martin is slated to make an appearance in his wife’s next movie as Iron-Deficient Man.
- Leonardo Di Caprio thinks he’s helping to save the planet by flying commercial “as often as possible” instead of taking a private jet. Talk about self-sacrifice. Move over, Ghandi!
- Brad Pitt has said, “There’s a lot of problems in the world right now because of our dependency on oil.” Which must be why he and Angelina and however many children they’ve adopted are house-hunting in Monaco, in addition to their homes in New Orleans and Cambodia. That’s a long way to walk from one house to the next, huh?
- Madonna has toxified the planet almost as much as she’s done to popular music. Her 2006 carbon footprint was estimated at 1,018 tons, or one ton per persona. Which made her Live Earth pontificating all the more enjoyable. “Hey You” yourself, Grandma.
- John Travolta warns against Global Warming and then jumps into one of his five private jets. Are you noticing a pattern here?
- Barbra Streisand wants you to wait until the dishwasher is full before you run it. Oh, and her tour rider makes all kinds of exorbitant demands, including rose petals in her toilet.
Etc., etc. But remember: “At least they’re doing something!”
this is just beating a dead horse isn’t it. These people are so clueless and out of touch they cannot see the hypocrisy of their ways and when they do they shrug their shoulders and say ’so what’ al Sting and Trudi. sigh
Someone should come up with a website or something pointing out all of these hypocrisies. And then they could have devilishly handsome, witty, commenters post stuff after the stories.
Can we expect anything else from those people anyway? They just, as usual, tries to woo the public with fancy activism. Of course, whale-hunting is much less engaging in their private life and they should have stayed to this level.
Regardless of what one’s person says, actions will always be louder than words.
The only underlying theme that makes sense of all Greenie policies is hatred of people. Hatred of other people has been a Greenie theme from way back. In a report titled “The First Global Revolution” (1991, p. 104) published by the “Club of Rome”, a Greenie panic outfit, we find the following statement: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
The modern environmental movement arose out of the wreckage of the New Left. They call themselves Green because they’re too yellow to admit they’re really Reds. So Lenin’s birthday was chosen to be the date of Earth Day. Even a moderate politician like Al Gore has been clear as to what is needed. In “Earth in the Balance”, he wrote that saving the planet would require a “wrenching transformation of society”.
Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is generally to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.
“Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen.”
— Sir John Houghton, first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead editor of its first three reports.
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