Celebrity Eco-Hypocrites

[chanel]

Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe.

Sheryl Crow, who had called upon the public to refrain from using more than one square of toilet paper per visit , leading a Stop Global Warming concert tour across America. It was revealed that while Crow travelled in a biodiesel tour bus, her 30-person entourage followed in a fleet of 13 gas-guzzling vehicles.

John Travolta notoriously encouraged the British public to do its bit to fight global warming — after flying into London on one of his five, yes, five private jets (one of which is a Boeing 707). In 2006 his piloting hobby produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions, more than a hundred times the output of the average Briton, according to the Carbon Trust.

It is less well known that Tom Cruise — who has campaigned for the LA-based environmental group Earth Communications Office — also has an air fleet and a licence to pilot his five planes, including a top-of-the-line customised Gulfstream jet he bought for his wife, Katie Holmes.

Harrison Ford, who is vice-chairman on the board of Conservation International, voices public-service messages for an environmental federation called EarthShare, and once shaved his chest hair to illustrate the effects of deforestation, is another hobby pilot. He once owned a Gulfstream but now makes do with a smaller Cessna Citation Sovereign eight-seater jet, four propeller planes and a helicopter.

Oprah Winfrey, who preaches eco-virtue from her TV pulpit, travelled in a 13-seat Gulfstream IV private jet for years — the preferred model for celebrities and the super-rich. (She has replaced it with a faster Bombardier Global Express.) The public first became aware of her private-jet habit when her plane had to make a forced landing in California in 2005; it was reminded of it this year after one of her stewardesses was fired for allegedly having sex with the pilot while Oprah and other passengers were asleep.

Perhaps more egregious, because she is a much more in-your-face global-warming campaigner, is Dame Trudie Styler, film financier and wife of Sting. Not only do she and her husband run seven homes and travel between them in private jets and a fleet of cars, but in 2007 an employment tribunal revealed Styler was furious when her pregnant chef refused to travel 100 miles to prepare some soup and salad. (The chef had regularly made the trip in the past, travelling by train and taxi.) And Sting recently had to contend with accusations that the Police were “the dirtiest band in the world” because of the scale of their last tour and the carbon footprint of the fans who went to see them.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin has been fingered as one of music’s biggest eco-hypocrites. George Monbiot, a writer and environmental campaigner, noted on his blog that Martin flew thousands of miles on his private jet, including brief trips between LA and nearby Palm Springs. Monbiot calculated that Martin’s trips back and forth to see his family produced 250 times the carbon emissions of an average Briton.


At the end of the film An Inconvenient Truth, the unbearably earnest former presidential candidate Al Gore asked his audience: “Are you ready to change the way you live?” His own huge Nashville mansion consumed over 20 times the electricity of an average American home. Indeed, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, it burnt twice as much power in the month of August 2006 than most American homes do in an entire year. Another inconvenient truth revealed that the former senator spent $500 a month just to heat the indoor swimming pool in his lavish domestic establishment. The 100ft houseboat he bought in 2008, on the other hand, was said to be powered by biodiesel.

There is something annoying about the way “ordinary” people are being told they must give up their “addiction” to cheap travel, when no leading Hollywood star — not even Leonardo DiCaprio, who often flies commercial — can bring themselves to relinquish the private jet.

Does it really matter that much that those who ask us to behave better are imperfect in their own behaviour?

Taking the private jet to Copenhagen - Times Online

Can't stand those pretentious posers.

 

[Mr. H.]

Unoccupied Colorado mansions that consume massive amounts of natural gas. Oh yeah- don't drill on the Roan Pleateau...

 

[uscitizen]

Too much hero worship?

Why would I care what John Revolta said anyway?

 

[Old Rocks]

My, my, and just one of your leading liars is a junkie with a national following of ditto head idiots.

 

[uscitizen]

The main thing is What did Tiger Woods say about global warming?

 

[Skull Pilot]

My, my, and just one of your leading liars is a junkie with a national following of ditto head idiots.

How does Limbaugh fit into this.

Those people did do what the Times article reported.

You hero Al Fat Ass Gore gets his huge behind carted around between his many homes in a private jet and a fleet of SUV limos as well all the while running up utility bills that are many times the national average.

Those who live in glass houses and all.

 

[Old Rocks]

Certainly, what the 'celebrites' have to say about global warming is far more important that the accelerating retreat of the alpine glaciers, and the acclerating melt of both Greenland and Antarctica.

 

[uscitizen]

Certainly, what the 'celebrites' have to say about global warming is far more important that the accelerating retreat of the alpine glaciers, and the acclerating melt of both Greenland and Antarctica.

some appear to feel that way.
sigh...

 

[Old Rocks]

My, my, and just one of your leading liars is a junkie with a national following of ditto head idiots.

How does Limbaugh fit into this.

Those people did do what the Times article reported.

You hero Al Fat Ass Gore gets his huge behind carted around between his many homes in a private jet and a fleet of SUV limos as well all the while running up utility bills that are many times the national average.

Those who live in glass houses and all.

The same way that Gore fits into it.

You idiots are listening to the yap-yap, and paying absolutely no attention to such things as the measurements that the scientists have made since the IPCC report was issued.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Certainly, what the 'celebrites' have to say about global warming is far more important that the accelerating retreat of the alpine glaciers, and the acclerating melt of both Greenland and Antarctica.

not the point

the point is that these pampered assholes are hypocrites. They spout about all us rabble killing the planet with our pick up trucks and big cars but they are even worse offenders than the average Joe.

Kind of sucks when the worlds foremost mouth piece for global warming is not walking the walk even though he has no trouble flapping his gums constantly

 

[uscitizen]

Actors are professional liars and some of you take what they say seriously?

Amazing.

 

[Skull Pilot]

My, my, and just one of your leading liars is a junkie with a national following of ditto head idiots.

How does Limbaugh fit into this.

Those people did do what the Times article reported.

You hero Al Fat Ass Gore gets his huge behind carted around between his many homes in a private jet and a fleet of SUV limos as well all the while running up utility bills that are many times the national average.

Those who live in glass houses and all.

The same way that Gore fits into it.

You idiots are listening to the yap-yap, and paying absolutely no attention to such things as the measurements that the scientists have made since the IPCC report was issued.

Hmm you mean all that raw data that was conveniently deleted?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Actors are professional liars and some of you take what they say seriously?

Amazing.

I do not have to believe what people say to recognize their hypocrisy.

 

[uscitizen]

How does Limbaugh fit into this.

Those people did do what the Times article reported.

You hero Al Fat Ass Gore gets his huge behind carted around between his many homes in a private jet and a fleet of SUV limos as well all the while running up utility bills that are many times the national average.

Those who live in glass houses and all.

The same way that Gore fits into it.

You idiots are listening to the yap-yap, and paying absolutely no attention to such things as the measurements that the scientists have made since the IPCC report was issued.

Hmm you mean all that raw data that was conveniently deleted?

No moreso that all those emails got deleted in the Bush WH.

 

[Skull Pilot]

The same way that Gore fits into it.

You idiots are listening to the yap-yap, and paying absolutely no attention to such things as the measurements that the scientists have made since the IPCC report was issued.

Hmm you mean all that raw data that was conveniently deleted?

No moreso that all those emails got deleted in the Bush WH.

OH this is Bush's fault too?

Now i get it.

 

[Old Rocks]

Raw data. It is available on the net if you look for it.

But that would not fit your 'reality'.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

 

[concept]

My, my, and just one of your leading liars is a junkie with a national following of ditto head idiots.

and does he preach to the choir about changing the way we live?


I don't think so.

 

[Charles Stucker]

You idiots are listening to the yap-yap, and paying absolutely no attention to such things as the measurements that the scientists have made since the IPCC report was issued.

Despite being skeptical of the claims about man made global warming pushing us toward disaster, I regularly
Turn the thermostat down when running the heat and up when using AC
I drive a modest automobile as little as possible, walking whenever it takes less than 30 minutes one way (that's up to an hour round trip) - unless I'm picking up something too heavy to carry far.
I've cut down meat to three meals a week and replaced it with soy.
I am purposely consuming less, particularly fossil fuels, because I believe in conserving resources.

Celebrities, and Al Gore in particular, don't back their professed beliefs with actions.
So tell me Rocks, what do you do to reduce Your carbon footprint.