Last week, environmental campaigners Harry and Meghan flew back to California from the Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant on a Bombardier Global 6000 private jet. Climate experts believe the journey will have resulted in ten times more carbon being emitted than if the Sussexes had taken a commercial flight. But the formerly Royal couple aren’t the only globe-trotting hypocrites among the ranks of the eco preachers. The Mail on Sunday has more.
Katy Perry: Flew Kim’s false nails 2,451 miles
When Orlando Bloom accepted an award for environmental campaigning in 2018, he urged: “The urgency of climate change has never rung louder… The world is changing and we need to change our habits along with it.”
However, it later emerged the Hollywood actor, 45, had flown to the event in Monaco with his fiancée, pop singer Katy Perry, on a private jet.
In 2015, Perry, 37, told fans: “Share your story on how you are helping to reduce climate change with the hashtag #FightUnfair.”
Three years later she reportedly flew false nails for Kim Kardashian by private jet 2,451 miles from LA to New York after the reality star forgot to pack them.
Perry was seen leaving a private jet in France in July 2021.
Brooklyn: I cut back on water for tea
The whole Beckham family has advocated action on climate change.
David and Victoria’s eldest son Brooklyn told GQ Magazine in April last year: “I do the basics, like not letting the water run when I brush my teeth, measure out my water for tea and I do not let the water run when I shower. Easy things like that make a difference.”
Yet the 23-year-old and his wife, heiress Nicola Peltz, 27, travelled by private jet on their first Christmas together in 2019.
He also flew with his family by private jet to Miami in December 2020.
Victoria and David flew by private plane to Brooklyn and Nicola’s Palm Beach wedding in Florida in April.
Harry: Fans urged to sign up to concert ‘eco villages’
Harry Styles may have launched a climate change campaign with his former One Direction bandmates – but that hasn’t stopped him zipping around the globe on private jets to venues where he is performing.
In July 2015, One Direction worked with Save The Children to urge young fans to play their part in protecting the Earth and “put pressure on our leaders”.
The Watermelon Sugar singer also set up ‘eco village’ stands at gigs on his Love On Tour, which encouraged fans to “take action for the climate”.
Yet last October, Styles, 28, was seen landing in Orlando, Florida, on a private jet.
He was also in attendance at the ‘Camp Google’ climate summit in 2019, where VIPs including Prince Harry arrived on 114 different private jets.
A source close to Styles said he uses commercial flights as well.
The Mail on Sunday article includes a rogue’s gallery of climate change hypocrites.
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I think it’s clear that on various levels, these people are collaborators and have been offered a special place in the post-industrial gulag that has been constructed around us since early 2020. Whether any of them are clever enough to realise is another matter but I think they should be considered collaborators and accessories to the crimes against humanity that ‘climate change’ and ‘covid-19’ represent. Every word their traitorous mouths utter about climate or vaccination is evidence that must one day be used against them.
Never mind the few filthy rich celebrities private-jetting across the world; If there really was a climate “emergency” (you know, one of those must-act-now-or-bad-things-will happen-immediately-scenarios) then why haven’t the airlines taken one for the team and scrapped their business- and first-class sections and filled them out with economy seats instead?
I know it sounds extreme, but this is an emergency is it not?
If it were an emergency then extreme measures like this would be justified, perhaps even insisted on to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the aviation industry (and this would dramatically reduce it).
The answer is simple: “Emergency” is not the correct word at all to describe the current environmental circumstances. In fact it’s a vast overstatement that has been invoked for many decades by hysterical activists. (Don’t get me wrong, I agree wholeheartedly with environmental activism, as an antidote to the destruction us humans have left in our wake over the past century, but that destruction has taken the form of deforestation, water pollution and many other collective assaults on the earth, rather than carbon, climate and all the rest of this silly little mind game that’s been visited upon us).
Pretty much any preachy pronouncement on any subject from a member of the elites is likely to stink of hypocrisy
Any pronouncements from the self-styled elites will be stuffed with hypocrisy. The two go together like bread and cheese.
Arkle and Markle fly half way round the globe in a private jet. Arkle disembarks, takes his shoes off and then lectures the world on saving the planet. Admittedly the Windsors have severe intellectual deficiencies but crap like this suggests Ging needs the bottom block. Sharpish.