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Hippy-crites!
May 6, 2008 | 7:58 AM
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Here is a lovely article about "do as I say, not as I do" celebrities that preach to us about how the earth will be destroyed immediately if we don't buy hybrid cars and cut out all of our energy usage and pollution...  See my next blog for the new stats on global saming...  On a side note, I do have to confess that Brad Pitt sure looks good for an idiot.

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You hippy-crites! When it comes to saving the planet do celebrities practise what they preach?

Last updated at 10:15am on 6th May 2008

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Is the hot air emitted by celebrities when they spout ecological platitudes a greenhouse gas?

 

If so, then the melting of the polar ice caps just moved a step closer, following calls by Trudie Styler, a leading celebrity ecological hypocrite - call them hippy-crites for short - for the general public to eat more locally grown vegetables.

 

Campaigning against food miles might seem an unlikely cause for Styler, given that a tribunal last year heard how she ordered her personal chef to travel over 100 miles to make a bowl of pasta for her youngest child and has sold olive oil and honey from her Tuscan estate, Il Palagio, 1,000 or so miles away, in Harrods in London.

 

So it was hardly surprising that an alert journalist present at the lecture, which was being staged as part of the Earls Court Real Food Festival, had the wit to question the environmental record of Styler and her husband Sting.

The couple's carbon footprint, the impertinent ink-stained wretch pointed out, has been estimated at 30 times greater than the average Briton's. How did Styler and Sting - who have seven homes - square that with their environmental crusading?

Styler conceded that as Sting "has a 750-person crew to bring around the world, it is a difficult challenge".

Her rare moment of ecological candour was shortly replaced by the more familiar self-congratulation and justification, however.

"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," she said.

Of course, Sting and Trudie's "do as I say not as I do" approach to the dilemma of environmental pollution is by no means unusual among the carbon-guzzling lifestyle of the celebrity elite.

Here's a roll call of some other startlingly hippy-critical celebrities:

 

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a_black_man read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 12:34 AM

DOH !!!
go_green4life read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 9:23 AM

Yes these people may still be flying around in their planes but why give them such a hard time. They are not persecuting anyone; they just want to raise awareness of a real issue. If a hybrid plane was invented I am sure they would buy one. If they would buy a hybrid car why not a hybrid plane.... because no one knows how to make one(that I know of). Most of the stars speaking out are very active and help a lot of people all over the world. There is no way, I can think of, that they can do that without the transportation everyone is so upset about. If they just stayed at home with the lights off people would probably get upset that they were not trying to help people when they have loads of money. No one is perfect. Why get upset at the people trying to better the world and not the ones keeping us here...
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 9:37 AM

oh but they ARE persecuting people. they aren't helping anyone with their holier-than-thou attitudes and that is why we give them a hard time. The earth is cooling because (believe it or not) humans aren't that important.

The only people they are hurting with their efforts are the poor people who can't afford corn or rice anymore. Or people who want to buy oil from companies FORCED to invest in alternative energy.

Oh, did I mention that they have no idea what they are talking about because the majority of them can't comprehend being unimportant, much less compose a complete sentence or understand the basics of climatology.
go_green4life read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 10:23 AM

News flash most people do not know the basics of climatology...I did not quite understand what you were talking about.. Earth cooling humans arent that important... why is alternative enrgy a bad thing? It may not be perfect right now but how can you deny that something has to change... we can not be dependent on oil forever and the solution will take time, money, patience, and pain will come from it. Do you tink getting mad at trying to find a solution distracts people from finding the answer sooner? Or do you think that we just need to keep on "truckin"?
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 10:35 AM

I think that if private citizens want to invest in alternative fuel research with the hopes of making the world better and/or lining their own pockets that is fine. I think the government shouldn't be involved since at this point global warming is a junk science at best. There are just as many studies disproving it as there are proving it. I don't think I should be forced to pay for it if I don't agree with the entire premise. It is a struggle for those of us who don't have money oozing out of our ears.

And some guy on the west coast figured out how to make his car run on trash. You know what the government did? Penalize him because he wasn't paying gas taxes. Don't be fooled - this global warming hoax is about money. Just like many cities enforced water conservation then realized they weren't making as much money - so they raised the price of WATER.

I understand that most people don't know that the earth warms and cools in cycles - but they should learn about it before they try to make us feel guilty for using a lightbulb that won't poison us with mercury if it breaks.
go_green4life read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 10:55 AM

I see what you are saying. I just do not understand how you are paying for the alternative methods? I certainly dont have the money to fund these things and yes it does come out of our pockets one way or another. So what is the solution? Keep paying for oil? It is not just about going green please dont be distracted by my name I think that recycling is a good thing period why pay to put more polution in the landfills. I dont think we are all going to drown from the ice caps melting but why not save some trees and get us to where we are not reliant on any country for any of our needs? Everything is about money these days, and the people who dont have any to spare are the ones hurting here not Exxon or Shell etc. I am for a solution for the little guy... quit taking corn and turning it into a gas for cars. If the farmers could grow quality instead of quantity... I dont know how but I have feeling things all around would get better not problem free but an improvement. I am tired of the ways the screw the citizens.. we are supposed to have the power not be bsed and forced to take it... the water thing really got me mad when I heard it and te sad thing is wha t we hear is such a small percentage of how much bs we are really being fed.
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 11:26 AM

I am paying for the funding when the US government forces oil companies to invest in finding an alternative fuel - who do you think absorbs the cost? The company or those of us filling up at the pumps?

We could afford oil if we would drill more here, impose fewer restrictions on the companies, and drop the ridiculous taxation at the pump. The government screws us 4 ways: they tax the oil when it is sold, they force the companies to invest in ways to put themselves out of business, and then they tax us when we purchase the oil at the pump. Then, just for fun, they tax the oil company's earnings.

We are being fed a s**tload of bs.
go_green4life read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 11:34 AM

I will definetly agree to that... it just seem slike you are on th e oil companies side and there is not too much of that going around right now.... I'm not hearing anywhere else how th e oil companies are being mistreated... who cares they can drive home in there outrageous gas guzzlers and not have care in the world excpet how the filet mignon for dinner better be how they like it
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 11:52 AM

There are other rich people besides oil execs and crooked politicians. They are just as awful about insisting their filet mignon is just right and drive just as big of cars. However, they are the ones taking the risks.
go_green4life read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 2:03 PM

how is that... what are they risking their Latte factor.. what about the people who dont even have a Latte factor what is being put on them? My point was not so much about the oil execs but rich people in general who think they are the ones being wronged... they may be but at least it is not leaving them homeless and hungry... but of course the poor dont have the connections or money needed to change things for themselves
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 2:09 PM

They risk their jobs - if a publicly held company posts a loss they lose their jobs. The peons who risk nothing lose nothing. Look at American Airlines. The execs all risked their retirements, their jobs to try to save a failing company and the whiney pilots and flight attendants (who make a decent living) cry about bonuses etc.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
flipnotic read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 7:52 PM

Speaking of idiots TexanInfidel, go look in the mirror before you call Brad Pitt one. You are the pot calling the kettle black.
TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 8:22 PM

Great logic and reasoning, flipnotic. Your input is always well thought out and kind in spirit. You constantly prove how intelligent you are!

And Brad Pitt is indeed handsome but also an idiot because he believes that humans control the earth's environment.
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