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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".

http://www.dailymail...ticle_id=564215

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Double Standards, Hypocrisy, and Hey! A Trip to Bonn

And is there anything quite like having 2,400 delegates from 162 Nations all jetting in to Bonn, Germany for a summit on--you guessed it--Climate Change?

I can understand it is possibly more interesting/productive/eventful having everyone gathering in person, attending all those parties with all that food (yes, there's a bit of a food crisis going on about the world isn't there?), but has anybody heard of videoconferencing? There's this series of tubes called the Internets that allows for such things ...

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Prince Charles Wants Everybody Else to Give Up Their Cars

Not just to appease the Vengeful Goddess Gaia, mind you, but also because he thinks the peasants will be happier if relieved of the burden of motorcars. The London Telegraph Reports:

The Prince, who has two Jaguars, two Audis, a Range Rover and still drives an Aston Martin given to him by the Queen on his 21st birthday, said developers had a duty to put public transport and the pedestrian at the heart of their housing schemes.

This is why I just cannot take Global Warming seriously. Prince Charles, Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy, Arianna Huffington, Thomas Friedman and all the other members of the Carbon Cult prodigiously enjoy all the luxuries of hydrocarbon consumption... gas-guzzling cars, private jets, gigantic homes, world travel ... but seek to deny any measure of those benefits to the working classes. It's why I suspect that the point of Global Warming hysteria isn't so much to "save the Earth" as it is to get all the unwashed masses off the freeways, off the airplanes, and off the beaches so the wealthy can have them all to themselves, while getting even richer through the Enron-scheme of selling worthless carbon credits for huge amounts of government-mandated money.

http://www.moonbatte..._charles_3.html

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Couldn't they just Twitter each other?

UN Climate Summit Leaves Large Carbon Footprint in NYC; 'Each foreign leader has a convoy of vehicles'...

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An epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma

Like ME (Myalgic Encephalopathy, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), OCD is regularly caricatured as one of the ailments of our modern, materialistic Western societies, endorsed by the fact that it has some curious symptoms and some celebrity sufferers. Cameron Diaz says that she habitually rubs doorknobs before opening doors. Leonardo Di Caprio forces himself not to step on chewing gum stains on the pavement. Daytime TV ‘therapist’ Jeremy Kyle licks his mobile phone every time it rings and Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman says that he has ‘self-diagnosed OCD’ whereby he needs to eat the same breakfast every morning from £220 Waterford crystal bowls, hence their inclusion on his expense account.

For some celebrity hypochondriacs, OCD has become a fashion statement, for others it is just a chain around their neck. But there is one major obsessive compulsion that has become a central feature of all our lives to the extent that there is real kudos in becoming its victim. Far from reducing anxiety, the latest OCD – Obsessive Carbon Dogma – actually raises anxiety in order to give itself some therapeutic rationale. Fear of rising tides, of population growth, of China and India, of motor cars, of energy use, and of most other aspects of contemporary society, has led us to develop an infatuation with carbon and the mindless repetitive trivia of everyday life. Such is the extent of this compulsion that it has even become government policy in many developed countries.

http://www.spiked-on...e/article/7446/

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Prince Charles Wants Everybody Else to Give Up Their Cars

The Prince, who has two Jaguars, two Audis, a Range Rover and still drives an Aston Martin given to him by the Queen on his 21st birthday, said developers had a duty to put public transport and the pedestrian at the heart of their housing schemes.

Prince Charles, Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy, Arianna Huffington, Thomas Friedman and all the other members of the Carbon Cult prodigiously enjoy all the luxuries of hydrocarbon consumption... gas-guzzling cars, private jets, gigantic homes, world travel ... but seek to deny any measure of those benefits to the working classes.

Political Correctness polices "unselfish" discourse, not behaviour.


PC values unselfish discourse (infinitely) more highly than unselfish behaviour: almost any amount or degree of selfish behavior can be excused so long as a person or group sticks by the laws governing discourse;
Groups with non-PC discourse are utterly beyond the pale: they are evil, and their actual behaviour is completely irrelevant to this judgment.

Common sense says we should take notice of what people do, not what they say; but in the morally inverted and anti-commonsensical world of political correctness this is reversed: notice is taken only of what people say and not at all of what they do.

For PC it is much more important how you justify your behaviour than how you actually behave.

For PC there is no essence to humanity, all is socially-constructed and contingent.
... for PC, discourse is the real-est thing; because discourse is understood to construct our perception of reality.


Political Correctness

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This is why I cannot take Global Warming seriously. Prince Charles, Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy, Arianna Huffington, Thomas Friedman and all the other members of the Carbon Cult prodigiously enjoy all the luxuries of hydrocarbon consumption... gas-guzzling cars, private jets, gigantic homes, world travel ... but seek to deny any measure of those benefits to the working classes.

Live by Hype, Die by Hype

How long before we see Al Gore on the cable TV backwaters selling ginsu knives?

Gore himself took on prophet-like status and wished to equate the global-warming/climate-change religion with his own godhead, and yet he now seems surprised that his movement suffers bad publicity, oblivious that it might be, at least in some small part, also related to his own public hypocrisies, whether the multiple energy-gorging luxury houses he owned, the private jetting and yacht, or the “crazed sex poodle” charges.

The point is not whether these hypocrisies or unproven harassment charges have anything to do with the purported warming of the planet, only that a guru who lives by defining his cult-like movement through his own person, should not be shocked that his cause suffers in the court of popular opinion when its media-absorbed, globe-trotting self-appointed messiah hits hard times.

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