I have no problem with enormously wealthy people living in the lap of luxury. Hey, it’s their money. And I’m okay with just ignoring the annoying busybodies who keep trying to tell us how to live our lives. But when an enormously wealthy busybody can’t stop living in the lap of luxury even as he’s telling us how to live our lives…
Courtesy of the Daily Mail:
Prince Charles is being accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed that he is chartering a luxury private jet for a five-day tour of Europe to promote environmental issues…
Instead of using scheduled flights, the Royal party has hired a private plane, thought to be an Airbus A319.
According to experts from the Carbon Managers company, which carries out environmental audits, the aircraft’s four European flights over 2,200 miles will leave a carbon footprint of 52.95 tons — nearly five times the average person’s 11-ton footprint for an entire year.
Each member of Charles’s party will leave a carbon footprint of 4.41 tons — 13 times more than if they had used a scheduled flight on the same type of plane, which can carry up to 156 passengers…
Last night Clarence House refused to confirm which type of plane Prince Charles was using or how much it would cost.
He used an Airbus A319 on a controversial 16,000-mile tour of South America in February as part of his crusade against global warming…
Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesman Norman Baker said: ‘Prince Charles seems not to realise that he enormously weakens his case for tackling climate change by his own profligate and careless habits. It is deeply unattractive to have somebody lecturing you on climate change when they are one of the greatest emitters of carbon themselves. When you couple Prince Charles’s private jets with Prince Andrew’s helicopters, you cannot help but think that the Royal Family is part of the carbon problem rather than part of the carbon solution.’
I’m trying to think of something more perfectly hypocritical. Ingrid Newkirk leading a horseback ride across the country to protest the subjugation of riding animals? Alec Baldwin competing in an éclair-eating contest to promote physical fitness? Al Gore… okay, Al Gore. He wins.
Come to think of it, Al and Charlie are two peas in a pod. They’ve both come tantilizingly close to enormous power they’re never going to have, so they’ve chosen to fill their empty, useless days with the trappings of wealth and the belief that they’re saving the world. They’ve both been told their whole lives they’re something special, and yet… well, just look at them. It’d be pitiful, if they were still worthy of our pity. If they had the sense to just leave us all alone.
(Hat tip to angryarmywife)
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Just another reminder that “climate change” is a fraud and designed to control commerce and people.
I’m less worried about this mule-faced dandy than I am that a company called Carbon Managers Company, which carries out environmental audits, exists. He’s easy enough to ignore. And I’m sure most people do. But those other guys. Why do they exist? When do the inspections start?
You know the knock on the door, what kind of car do you drive? What kind of light bulbs are in your lamps? What’s your thermostat set at? Are you eating meat? I think they’re the ones you have to worry about.
What Pasta said.
I agree with Pasta as well. One other thing does bother me – the reason these celebs are touting living green and reducing carbon emissions is so that THEY can continue with their lifestyles without altering them. The less carbon we “little people” use, the more these so-called green celebrities can use. Jerkoffs.
Hard to out-write Pasta with that one. Great entry.
Pasta – there’s a trick for dealing with people like that. When they show up to audit your carbon footprint, offer to volunteer to help others lower their own footprints. Then take a crowbar to that Earth-killing car of theirs.
It’s fun to save the Earth!
My grandfather said stuff like that would happen Scott. And he was the one with all the $3 bills with Clinton’s picture on them, and thought that strip with $100s that runs on the left side of the bill was (for real) a tracking device. What if HE was the sane one?
If he heard all this he’d be spinning in his grave. Well…he would if we devised some sort of underground grave spinning device. Or he wasn’t a box of ashes on someone’s closet shelf in Florida.
Good one, Scott! Or maybe ask them to stop breathing for a long, long time. And Pasta, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a government-formed group paid for with people’s tax dollars. You can get all sorts of money nowadays if your organization or research has something to do with the environment. And as for Prince Charles, I’m sure he’ll make up for it by buying some “carbon credits” off of Al Gore.
Thinning the herd, as my husband calls it. I would love to see a few of them leave the earth. That would cut down on their carbon footprint.
oh, even better. First blowhard Gore and now the Prince
Prince Charles signs green movie deal
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/24/prince.green/
Nothing more “green friendly” than executing people who are on death row faster. Less food to feed them, less utilities, less breathing and farting (prison food will make you fart a lot I’m told).
Why isn’t anybody promoting this avenue???
I agree with Pasta, Scott and Hurricane. Executing people on death row would also help all the state budget problems too!
It’s pinheads like this that have me stocking up on real, non-mercury-filled-made-in-the-USA-not-China light bulbs before they’re illegal.
If I remember right, your typical execution runs something like $7 million dollars. Feel free to correct me on that, but that’s an awful lot of money to spend in an effort to balance a budget.
Also, I laugh every time I hear about Prince Charlie, because there is just no way that HRH isn’t going to outlive him. Hell, that’s her primary job nowadays; proving that any queen named Elizabeth has the same lifespan as a freaking tree.
“If I remember right, your typical execution runs something like $7 million dollars.”
Isn’t that counting the court costs for the incredibly lengthy, seemingly never-ending appeals process? I would assume that’s part of what they were referring to when those here said we should streamline the process.
Isn’t it Texas where cases with more than two credible eyewitnesses are expedited? Now that’s a law I like.
I would likewise assume that $7 million includes the 20-30 years of keeping them around, thus the ridiculousness of it all.
If that’s true about Texas (which I would believe in a heartbeat) I love them even more. Too bad I can’t stand large bugs, insanely hot weather and flat scenery.
Look what I found! http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/FactSheet.pdf
Apparently, even Texas runs in the 2 million dollar range for an execution, and there have been a lot of questions about how much more likely it is for a black defendant to be executed than a white defendant. I also found the bit about pre-execution exonerations interesting.
“and there have been a lot of questions about how much more likely it is for a black defendant to be executed than a white defendant.”
That’s a red herring argument that’s been used for years by people who campaign against the death penalty and race-baiters like Jesse Jackson. If you look at the percentage of blacks on death row vs. whites and compare it directly with what percentage of the population they make up, it does seem out of whack. Blacks make up less than 20% of the population, but in a lot of states they make up 30-40% of the executions.
But making that comparison is irrelevant. You have to look at the percentage of blacks executed vs. the percentage of death penalty punishable crimes they commit. It doesn’t matter if they only make up 20% of the population if they’re committing 40% of the murders. I think you’ll find that using that standard, the numbers start to make sense.
If it’s a race thing, why are Hispanics so underrepresented in executions? According to the data you provided, only 7% of criminals executed were Hispanic, which is much less than their representative population.
But the real question is, why the hell did this turn into a death penalty argument? I thought we were hammering on the eco-nazi’s today?
Scary points, Scott and Pasta. I seriously am ready to move somewhere remote where the eco-nazis won’t find me, and where I can scare them off with the remains of the chicken carcasses.
Speaking of deathrow – the guy who was behind the Oklahoma City bombing is complaining about bleeding from the butt because of the bad food served in prison. REally? Why is he still alive and are you sure he is bleeding because of the food and not because of Bubba?
Is it just me or does Charlie look like he got a good whiff of stinking Camilla in the picture above?