About a year ago, they had this big rock concert under the banner of climate change, or global warming, or saving the planet, or some other granola-gasm. One of the acts was Sting, who’s always front-and-center when it comes to claiming progressive righteousness.
Well, The Police had a concert in Leipzig, Germany, a few days ago. Their lead singer (the aforementioned Sting) was running a little late, so he took a private jet to Leipzig, a Falcon 2000. That plane has space for fourteen passengers, and Sting was the only one on the plane.
I wonder how many tons of CO2 that jet belched into the atmosphere for one passenger?
The best part is that the Falcon 2000 wasn’t even chartered…it’s Sting’s private plane. I guess when you’re an important climate warrior, you can justify using a fourteen-seat private jet for just yourself, or have a house with the carbon footprint of a city block. And these douchebags bitch about other people driving SUVs?
11 Comments
June 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Isn’t it amazing how people can be so blind to their own hypocrisy? Sometimes I wonder if these people have ever actually stopped and examined their own lives before they go ahead and judge everybody else.
June 29, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I don’t even know if it is a matter of not examining their own lives. I think people like Al Gore and Sting really don’t care. The whole climate control issue is for the masses. It does not apply to the elite. The elite in communist Russia, Germany, or any other autocracy never had to do without. That’s why we must fight these elitist pigs.
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June 29, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Well, it’s awfully fashionable to be Concerned about the Environment. It’s an automatic win with a huge slice of the populace, kind of like being a bible-thumper to a different demographic. Want the yupper-middle-class Latté vote? Be vociferously Concerned About Global Climate Change.
Whether you actually give a wet slap or not. *shrugs*
There’s no point in getting upset about it – for the vast majority of slebs, Causes are just marketing points and demo targetting. Good fun to point it out whilst loudly proclaiming “WWwwwwwwaaankaahhhhh!” though.
June 29, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Or maybe they realize that the whole “Global warming” or “Climate change” rhetoric is just so much hot air. They don’t get concerned about it because they know that there’s nothing to the junk science they’re propagating.
I come from rural WV. Not as rural as some places up there, but still enough that it’s mostly wilderness. If you ever want proof that the planet doesn’t really give two flips that we’re here, go out to one of those rural places sometime and start asking old-timers about towns that used to be there. One of the places I lived was a place called Crow. At the turn of the 20th century, there was a booming coal town there, with a couple hundred buildings. When I lived there, in the late 90’s, there were very few of those old buildings. Sometimes I’d run across the foundations of a house or company building, but you couldn’t find it until you were right on top of it.
I currently live in FL, on two acres. I can cut and mow and burn and used weedkillers, and get all the vegetation pushed back. Two or three weekends of rain, and I’m in a jungle again. The planet is able to undo all my work without even noticing.
I find it amazing that we’re not able to dive to the true depths of the ocean, we’re not able to sink mine shafts all that deep relative to the center of the earth, and yet we have the chutzpah to think that we’re able to do something that will destroy the planet. I recall a piece of science from years ago that stated that we could simultaneously detonate ALL of our nuclear weapons, and it would be less of an impact than some of the meteor strikes that have happened in history. We might all be dead, but the planet will shrug and go on.
Man has some amazing hubris.
June 29, 2008 at 8:11 pm
“The best part is that the Falcon 2000 wasn’t even chartered…it’s Sting’s private plane. I guess when you’re an important climate warrior, you can justify using a fourteen-seat private jet for just yourself”
Don’t forget, all pigs are equal, some are just more equal than others.
June 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Its purely politics and a ton of BS…then again politics=BS
Climate change is also BS, im a biologist and have some serious mixed feelings on this whole climate change crap…BS.
we all have to die sometime and the planet, well the planet will find a way to start over, it always has, so the big worry on climate change is the idea of losing our way of life.
June 30, 2008 at 1:29 pm
What ever side of the climate change coin you are on… The point is that it would effect us, the people. The planet couldn’t care less. Just ask a dinosaur. The real question is, are we lining up to be the next fossil in some museum in a few million years?
I look at the whole “pollute less” thing as a win/win. Even if it’s crap, why not set goals to make the place we live nicer to life in? I’m not really up for watching another major river catch on fire. At the very least, I’d like to have a clean place to take my grand kids quail hunting in 40 years or so.
Turkish Prawn
June 30, 2008 at 5:50 pm
You’ll have Alaska for that, Prawn, kwitcherbeliaykin!
June 30, 2008 at 7:08 pm
haha. I find that hilarious.
June 30, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I like how that while the environmentalists are screaming about CO2 footprint, a single volcano spouts more greenhouse gasses than the human race could hope to ever produce…
It’s fashionable to drive a Prius (or Pious)
It’s fashionable to buy carbon credits so you can stick a bumper sticker on the aforementioned Prius that announces to the world that you care
It’s fashionable to appear to care about the environment. Buy a carbon credit and replace your light bulbs with CFL, and it means you did your best…
July 1, 2008 at 10:49 am
I’m not really up for watching another major river catch on fire.
I agree, but my inner pyromaniac is screaming, “THAT’D BE WICKED AWESOME!”