They obviously don't, for one second, believe what they spout!!!
TOM SYKES
6 May 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=564215&in_page_id=1773
You hippy-crites! When it comes to saving the planet do celebrities
practise what they preach?
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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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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