There’s no hypocrite quite like a green hypocrite is there?
Whenever you get some eco-zealot is lecturing you about impending climate doom and the need for “us” to go vegan, you can be pretty sure that you are dealing with someone whose carbon emissions would put some developing nations to shame and whose diet would make a vegetarian shudder.
Over the last year, the ability of our climate-aware friends to hop from the ski slopes to the protest march, from the business-class lounge to the barricades, has been an endless source of entertainment.
Remember Zoe Jones from Extinction Rebellion? She returned from holidays in Uganda, New Zealand, and the Alps to blockade a major thoroughfare in Bristol, infamously preventing people from getting to the hospital. “We’re doing the right thing” she opined.
One of our favorites was another Extinction Rebellion supporter, Professor Jem Bendell of the University of Cumbria, who enjoys regular trips to Bali, and is also a visiting professor at institutions in Australia, Spain, Kenya, and Switzerland.
Indeed, the hypocrisy of the environmental movement is now so all-encompassing that it is starting to move from the domain of amusing anecdote to that of serious scientific consensus.
Here at the Global Warming Policy Forum, we don’t like to let this achievement on this scale go unrecognized, and with that in mind, we are launching an annual award to find the person who has most brazenly failed to practice what they preach, the person whose brass neck truly makes them stand out from the green crowd.
Our paper launching the awards can be read here, and in it, you’ll find details of how you can nominate your favorite eco-hypocrite and some of the possible frontrunners.
But hurry, nominations close on 13 December!
To help us find the winner, send your nominations to info@thegwpf.com, together with a few words about why you think they are deserving of the accolade, in each of the three categories:
- Luvvie (actor or actress)
- Business
- Politician
Nominations close on 13 December and the winners will be announced the following week, just in time for Christmas!
Climate Hypocrite AL GORE,LEONARDO DiCAPRIO,LAURIE DAVID,JOHN TRAVOLTA just to name a few
I nominate the IPCC for holding annual mega conferences that waste megatonnes of precious fuel. Teleconferencing these bullshit sessions would be a good public relations strategy. Why don’t they? Because they’re hungry little piggies.