Actor and environmental campaigner Alec Baldwin has demanded that “certain sacrifices” be made to save the planet for future generations.
Baldwin, who was speaking on Tuesday at the U.N. headquarters, did not specify what those sacrifices might be.
But with a personal fortune estimated at $65 million it is unlikely that he will find making them too troublesome.
“This may be our last chance in the next 20 years to take action against global warming,” Alec Baldwin warned while chairing a panel on threats to “Forest Defenders” at the annual meeting of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
According to the Associated Press, he said:
“There are things that we just can’t imagine that can happen in terms of the food supply, in terms of climate change, in terms of flooding in coastal areas in the United States and beyond,” he said. “The time is now to make certain sacrifices … so that this planet will remain habitable” for today’s children.
Baldwin said that his passion for preserving the planet had been sparked by meeting indigenous peoples at the 2015 UN climate conference in Paris.
Indigenous people, he said, understand better than anyone else the places where they live. This is why, he claimed, those in power want to “get rid of them by whatever means necessary” in order to gain control of their natural resources.
Whatever the merits of his case about the plight of indigenous people, Baldwin is surely stretching the truth when he claims that his Paris encounter with them was what fired his passion for environmentalism.
It is, after all, a matter of public record that Baldwin has campaigned for leftist causes most of his adult life.
He has been an animal rights activist and supporter of PETA for at least two decades. And he was hosting anti-fracking events years before the Paris summit.
Alec Baldwin agreed with one of his fellow panelists – Rukka Sombolinggi, secretary-general of Indonesia’s Indigenous People’s Alliance of the Archipelago – that the time had come to stop “talking and negotiating” and start acting.
According to AP:
[Sombolinggi] said world leaders will “have to stop talking and negotiating” at the U.N. climate summit coming up in September. “They just really need to agree on actions” to preserve “mother Earth,” Sombolinggi said.
Baldwin, who plays U.S. President Donald Trump on the NBC comedy series “Saturday Night Live,” interjected to laughter: “Can’t you move here and run for senator?”
“We need someone to say, ‘No more talking,’” he said. “We need you in Washington!”
Baldwin said Americans feel they are going to do the right thing because of their resources and economic power, “but you find that we’re becoming more and more like other parts of the world where anything goes, regulations being set aside.”
Baldwin’s comments were in marked contrast to those of his President, who earlier this week marked Earth Day by arguing that “a strong market economy” is what protects the environment.
According to the Guardian:
“Environmental protection and economic prosperity go hand in hand,” Trump said in his message for Earth Day, a global event held to support environmental protection annually since 1970.
“A strong market economy is essential to protecting our critical natural resources and fostering a legacy of conservation. My administration is committed to being effective stewards of our environment while encouraging opportunities for American workers and their families.”
Baldwin will likely find something angry to say about this in his next Saturday Night Live skit.
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Baldwin is right that we can’t imagine what may happen because everything they say about the changes that are coming is made up.
Hey Baldwin here are few Sacrifices you can make Quit Hollywood,Quit making movies,Take up living in a grass hut or cave,live like a hermit No fires to keep you warm and cook your food and quit doing stupid ads for PETA
The superheated CO2 source known as Alec Baldwin is an obvious sacrificial candidate.
How about Alex quits assaulting people ? You know wasting all that CO2
over a parking stall . Was that a Tesla he was driving ?
Alex just doesn’t strike me as a guy that walks far or flies economy .
Another raging Hollywood hypocrite.He could donate the $65 million to save the planet or just spend it globe trotting and chirping about the big scary , earth has a fever ? He should stick to comedy .
Wanted Sam Hyde and his family stoned to death while on the Conan Obrian Show has dome stupid ads for PETA along with Pammy Anderson dont a perfectly awful adult movie based upon the Children’s classic THE CAT IN THE HAT called his own little Daughter a Selfish Little Pig Just another Hollywood Washout who cant act at all just another to add to the Boycott List
It may be true that Alec Baldwin didn’t say what the ‘Certain Sacrifices’ would consist of, but going on what the others in the anthropological climate change movement are working for, these sacrifices are pretty obvious. Taxes would increase significantly, while our standard of living would decline to the level of many poor third world countries. Energy prices would sky rocket while its availability and reliability would nose drive. People like Baldwin are not smart enough to know that food would become more expensive and scarce and unemployment would hit record heights.