Hollywood and
global-warming is a natural match. After
all, who can tell you better to cut back on your wasteful ways better than a
high-flying multimillionaire movie star with the carbon footprint the size of a
dinosaur?
In 1990, PBS broadcasted
a 10-hour series entitled – “Race to Save the Planet.” The program’s host was Meryl Streep, who proclaimed:
“By the year 2000 ... the earth’s climate will be warmer than it’s been in over
100,000 years. If we don’t do something,
there will be enormous calamities in a very short time.” Really?
Did I miss it?
It’s bad enough that
they don’t know what they’re talking about, but it’s worse that they’re hypocrites
while preaching their nonsense. A
private jet burns as much fuel in an hour as a car does in a year. The 48,000-pound Gulfstream G550, which can
fly from Chicago to Rome with 15-passengers, burns through more than 400-gallons
of fuel per hour.
Then there is Leonardo
DiCaprio, who lectures, “If we don’t act together, we will surely perish.” Radar Online
reported in April that DiCaprio boarded a private jet six different times
within 6-weeks last year. But the
charade continues. A partnership between
DiCaprio and Netflix was announced in March to create yet another series of propagandist
environmental documentaries.
The Media Research
Center has a new report on “Climate Hypocrites and the Media That Love Them.” Take Julia Roberts, who recently made a video
for Conservation International playing a big role, saying: “Some call me nature.
Others call me Mother Nature. I’ve been here for over four and a half
billion years. 22,500 times longer than
you. I don’t really need people, but
people need me. Yes, your future depends
on me. When I thrive, you thrive. When I falter, you falter. Or worse. But I’ve been here for eons. I have fed species greater than you, and I
have starved species greater than you.”
The loathing of the
human race is a constant green theme. But
it’s not hard to find photos of Roberts climbing in and out of private jets. In fact, for a while she even co-owned a
private jet.
Woody Harrelson is such
a tree-hugger that he told CBC News in Canada that he’d “like to see it get to
the point where we never use trees to make paper because to me it’s just a
barbaric way to make it. ... It’d be nice to just stop using the forest.” But at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, when
Harrelson realized that he had left his vegan belt and shoes behind, he had
them flown to France from California.
At least John Travolta
offers self-awareness, that when he said global warming is a “very valid”
issue, he added “I’m probably not the best candidate to ask about global
warming because I fly jets.” Travolta
owns five jets and has flown tens of thousands of miles in the air. He thinks the answer may be “other planets” … a
natural suggestion for a Scientologist.
These celebrities don’t
take tough questions well.
When asked about
DiCaprio’s hypocrisy, actor Mark Ruffalo shot back: “Oh, brother, that is a
question you shouldn’t be asking here today because that defies the spirit of
what this is about.” He added that
anyone who attacks DiCaprio is “a coward or an ideologue” because “Leonardo
DiCaprio’s voice carries farther than any one of those politicians, even the
president.”
If that’s true, blame star-dazzled
media elite that never care one whit about hypocrisy from Hollywood.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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