More than 100 celebrity supporters of climate activists Extinction Rebellion (XR) who hail from Hollywood, the theater world, music, and the arts have admitted in an open letter being “hypocrites” over their high-carbon lifestyles.
That said, they think it best if everyone else not in their cohort do as they are told by Greta Thunberg and “fight for their already devastated future” before adding that critics “will not silence us.”
In essence, they claimed Wednesday: “Life on earth is dying. We are living in the midst of the 6th mass extinction.”
British actors Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lily Cole, Adam Clayton of U2 and Riz Ahmed are among the signatories on the letter, which was circulated by XR.
It also features sign-offs from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, writer Ian McEwan and former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
The missive was specifically addressed to journalists who had called the thespians and musicians hypocrites and said: “You’re right. We live high carbon lives and the industries that we are part of have huge carbon footprints.”
“Like you — and everyone else — we are stuck in this fossil-fuel economy and without systemic change, our lifestyles will keep on causing climate and ecological harm.”
It went on to say that articles labeling them “climate hypocrites” would “not silence us”, and encouraged more people to join the movement.
In a separate note, actor Steve Coogan said he believed XR “should be applauded for putting [climate] at the top of the agenda where it belongs.”
Their entreaty to the world to stop burning fossil fuel mirrors the same plea from Stephen Fry, Ruby Wax, Sir Mark Rylance, and Juliet Stevenson and Olivia Colman who had already backed XR.
This is not the first time stage and screen actors have spoken up to back XR.
Dame Emma Thompson flew 5,400 miles to take part in XR protests in London back in April, as Breitbart News reported.
The actress, star of such films as Saving Mr. Banks and Nanny McPhee, made the unusual decision to fly halfway around the world to join in the environmental protests in the capital.
Speaking of the protests, Thompson said she couldn’t attend from the beginning as she was celebrating her birthday.
“I was not here on April 15 because I was with my husband because I was 60,” said the actress, who has been labeled a “champagne socialist” by critics.
“I absolutely wanted to be arrested on my 60th birthday but I haven’t quite managed that,” she added.
A flight from Los Angeles International Airport to London Heathrow generates at least 1.67 tonnes of CO2.
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This is a prime example of “Do as I say, not as I do.” And why would anyone think for one moment that celebrities have a greater understanding of the climate than the 500 scientists who sent a letter to the UN that there is no climate emergency?
From the title of the article it would seem that celebrities realize their hypocrisies and have decided to change, such as limiting trips to what is necessary. Reading further on, nothing could be further from the truth. “without systemic change, our lifestyles will keep on causing climate and ecological harm.” Systemic change translates into forcing energy poverty onto the average family, while the elite continue with their large emissions.
Al Gore wins the 1 2019 Global Warming Hypotcrite Award put that in your trophy case with your Nobel and your Oscar Mr Al Gore the Bore
that open letter is as much a batch of hooey as anything greta wails plaintively, there is absolutely no intention to change their actions but to use their voices, but that would substantially increase CO2 production…
So why should we follow the dictates of Brainwashed 16 year old and bunch of Hollywood Airheads who sit and spout off lines written for them by somebody else in the first place?
A little more CO2 has done nothing but green the planet, shrunk deserts, and encouraged a string of world record crop yields Hollywood. Climate related deaths are about 56,000 a year. That’s down from 500,000 a year before coal, oil, and gas powered development one hundred years ago. LACK OF ENERGY KILLS SEVEN MILLION A YEAR. One billion people still live without electricity. A generation ago, youth and music got together and motivated the world to pull one billion people out of poverty. This imaginary climate crisis would reverse all that if it was taken seriously. Do your homework. And get on the side of energy powered development.
If I was as myopic as the lunatics on the Green fringe, I would claim that exponential increases in my crops yields were attributable to 410ppm CO2, or my genius as a farmer. I don’t and I won’t . There’s too many variables.
I will say that my soybeans have gone from 40/46/54/67 bushels per acre in the last ten years.
I will update my corn yield when I have this year’s results.