Let’s say you want to save the world. You’ve spent years telling everyone that mankind is irreversibly altering the environment with our SUVs and incandescent light bulbs and cell phone chargers that we leave plugged in even when we’re not charging our cell phones. You insist that if we don’t do something about it right now, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING.
So, how do you show that you really believe the words that are coming out of your mouth?
Not like this (courtesy of the Daily Telegraph):
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.
“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
“It’s too cold to walk from the hotel to the convention on global warming. Let’s take a limo!”
And then there’s the delicious cherry on top of the hypocrisy sundae:
The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.
Taking a private jet to a conference on stopping global warming is a bit like traveling in a sedan chair carried by indentured servants to a summit on stopping human trafficking. Except we’re the ones they want to enslave. If they get their way, they’ll crush us with taxes, make our energy bills skyrocket, and otherwise cut our standard of living back to 19th-century levels. “Okay, you guys sit there shivering in the dark while we whoop it up with some Copenhagen hookers!” All because “the science is settled,” when anybody with an Internet connection can find out for themselves just how unsettled the science really is. And, of course, because it’s just not fair that we live better than any other human beings in the history of the world. Why don’t you feel more guilty?
If the only way to save the planet is to help destroy the planet, then… maybe we’re not really destroying the planet? These guys don’t really believe what they’re saying — that we’re on the verge of apocalypse because of anthropogenic global warming, or man-made climate change, or whatever they’re calling it this week — or else they’d never burn another ounce of fuel in their lives. They’d never go anywhere that can’t be reached on foot, and even then, they’d try to find a way to lower their CO2 emissions. Hey, how about putting a dry-cleaning bag over your head and securing it with duct tape? I’ll help!
(Hat tip to Hot Air)
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Actually, I think providing celebrities and politicians with access to whores is a bit coals-to-Newcastle. Ain’t no bigger whores in the world than Al Gore and Barack Obama.
aaaahhhh the gulag archepelago way of slavery is so 20th century old world.
It’s not easy seemin’ green.
Copenhagen hookers? I am so there.
“Hey girls I just bought one of those curly environment bulbs!”
** squeels and sighs of delight**
I guess that whole car pool thing isn’t for them either… Of course I wouldn’t want to be confined in a small space and rub elbows with most of these enviro-freaks either.
I’m all for doing our part to keep the earth clean, I don’t like seeing trash in the road and stuff like that… but I don’t go around telling people they’re killing the planet. I just think they’re nasty.
I mean it really pisses me off hearing how we all should bike or walk to where we need to go, but some of us live in the middle of nowhere and HAVE TO DRIVE(to get to work, buy food, etc)! Their solutions are only feasible in their small little world and THEY don’t even want to do it.
We can have some fun with this… send a climate greeting to the conference in Copenhagen.
http://en.cop15.dk/climate+greetings
I’m calling that greeting for Copenhagen site fakish. Did you run through those greetings they have posted? They read like something out of a sixth graders “Love Diversity!” work book or something. What a crock. Wanna bet they don’t post mine?
I am certain they did not use mine Pasta. Fake or not it felt good to vent in 150 choice words or less
In honor of the Copenhagen self love-fest, I added about 5000 more lights (non-LED) to the outside of the house. Nothing says Christmas like a light display that can be seen from the moon and fooling random aircraft to set up their final approach on my driveway.
** Take that Copenhagen and Earth! **
uh oh. I left my cell phone charger plugged in at home. Are we all gonna die?
Bad example. You don’t hear those who deal in human trafficking telling us we can’t do it too.
Good point, Stan.
Until Sheryl Crow tells me I can’t use more than one or two slaves in the loo, I’m gonna keep on flushing entire shipfulls.
Here’s an idea: Let’s each sponsor a Green Piece (those Al Hore[sic]-type folks that wanna step on your necks on their way to the private airplane).
Every time they open their mouth, set fire to a tree… every time they burp up something even remotely close to “cutting back on your lifestyle” a la nOprah, empty an aerosol can directly into the air (be sure it does nothing but go RIGHT into the air, we don’t want any secondhand benefits)… bonus points if you incinerate the empty can… for each PR put out that says anything about Global Warming, fart. And make it a good, greasy one. Methane is the next Sexy Greenhouse Gas. Your children will not only thank you, they won’t be as embarrassed to be seen with you. Post-flatulence, of course.
This way, they hurt their own cause with every step they take. With each action they think will be HELPING their cause, the results from being sponsored will make it so they are actually HURTING their cause.
Whadya think?
I’m not going to claim to have invented this idea… that honor would go here:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sponsor
I do the same thing with PETA quigonkick, every time they open their mouths is another trip to McDonald’s for me. (I really need to start running…)
Re “Taking a private jet to a conference on stopping global warming is a bit like traveling in a sedan chair carried by indentured servants to a summit on stopping human trafficking.”
From the Wikifilter: “An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities. Unlike a {taxpayer}, an indentured servant is required to work only for a limited term specified in a signed contract.”
And? Feel like signing up? Hey, Wikifilter says it’s not so bad.
Yeah, and that TOTALLY invalidates the whole Climategate thing, too. Great catch, wef.
Al Gore was caught in a bigfoot suit with boards strapped to his feet manufacturing crop circles earlier today.
So Big Al is killing trees, to make boards for his feet to smash down green plants now too?!
The man truly is a monster.
Like Copenhagen doen’t have fabulously good and cheap public transit…
Will Manbearpig be there?? He’s super serial about climate change!
That was my first thought, Fred. We’re always hearing about how great Europe’s public transportation is, and how America needs to emulate it (same reasoning for the stupid roundabouts that VDOT is jamming down our throats). Is that so that Dear Leader, Algore and co. can have more space for their limos, while upping our taxes to pay for the expanded mass transit?
Silly AllyKat, you don’t need mass transit if you live in caves and huts. The tax money will all go to “alternative” energy think tanks that don’t produce anything but hot air. Which isn’t that environmentally friendly either, come to think of it…
Just drink the Kool-aid.
I’m gonna play the bad guy here. What if we do cut our dependency on foreign oil? What happens to Saudi Arabia, and the rest? What does the Middle East have to offer anybody but oil? Expert explosive belt makers? Violence? Misogyny? Pistachios? Seriously I don’t think this could ever really happen. It’s all lip service and will be forever until the good folks in the desert over there quit living in the 15th century. Religiously/culturally speaking anyway.
Brazil cut its dependency on foreign oil a long time ago.
Not that we wanna be just like Brazil, but I mean, it can be done.
I need to go kick a tree now. Oh yeah, and all of my chargers are plugged in ALL THE TIME.
The reason Brazil cut its dependency is because of biofuels from sugarcane, which is still bad news for the planet (or the Amazon Rainforest at least).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070208-ethanol.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080207-biofuels-carbon.html
From the second story:
“And when rain forests with floors of peat—a thick layer of partly decomposed plants—are razed for crops, the peat rots and releases tons of carbon dioxide emissions over decades, the study found.
Sugarcane ethanol had the smallest “carbon debt,” which takes about 17 years to pay off, Tilman said. Corn ethanol’s debt would takes 93 years to pay off.”
So Big Al is killing trees, to make boards for his feet to smash down green plants now too?!
The man truly is a monster