Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customised planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants?
Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe.
There was Sheryl Crow, who had called upon the public to refrain from using more than one square of toilet paper per visit (“except on those pesky occasions when two or three are required”) and who was leading a Stop Global Warming concert tour across America. It was revealed that while Crow travelled in a biodiesel tour bus, her 30-person entourage followed in a fleet of 13 gas-guzzling vehicles.
John Travolta notoriously encouraged the British public to do its bit to fight global warming — after flying into London on one of his five, yes, five private jets (one of which is a Boeing 707). In 2006 his piloting hobby produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions, more than a hundred times the output of the average Briton, according to the Carbon Trust.
It is less well known that Tom Cruise — who has campaigned for the LA-based environmental group Earth Communications Office — also has an air fleet and a licence to pilot his five planes, including a top-of-the-line customised Gulfstream jet he bought for his wife, Katie Holmes.
Harrison Ford, who is vice-chairman on the board of Conservation International, voices public-service messages for an environmental federation called EarthShare, and once shaved his chest hair to illustrate the effects of deforestation, is another hobby pilot. He once owned a Gulfstream but now makes do with a smaller Cessna Citation Sovereign eight-seater jet, four propeller planes and a helicopter.
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With Prof Jones stood aside, the IPCC must pull all references to his work.
Logically – the Copenhagen climate conference should be canceled now.
Crow stole the material from her debut album from the musicians she jammed with in a dilapidated old space in Burbank and introduced her boyfriend to the dangerous practice of … never mind, I won’t go down that road, you can Google it and find out on your own. In any case, I created a blog space dedicated to an eventual music project of my own, named after her one sheet notion.
For her debut album …
The simple fact is this: the private jet is the one unalterable attraction of being filthy rich.
Most of the plutocracy would sooner begin processing their relatives into biodiesel than give up the Gulfstream.
Just a reminder that the Munk debates are starting in 45 minutes time. It should be interesting.
http://www.munkdebates.com/LiveStream/
LOL. I was involved in selling Travolta his Pilatus Porter turboprop, which had previously been used in filming Air America with Mel Gibson. He’s quite the flying nut. Apparently Cruise picked up the flying bug from him, that Earth Communications Office sounds like a scientology front organization. which from googling appears to be so. Famous scilons are notorious about security and private travel accomodations.
They wre a great recruiting tool for climate realism.
These Liberals love to change everything in my country except the climate.Which they want to stay exactly the same,along with natives with bones through their nose.
‘Sting’ loves them little critters.
From the article:
“Perhaps it is better that public figures say the right thing, even if they are not doing it themselves. Does it really matter that much that those who ask us to behave better are imperfect in their own behaviour?”
Er, yes, if they expect us to actually listen to them.
Here is a quote from this article that might make it as quote of the week.
However, as one Hollywood agent told me, the real reason so many people in Tinseltown drive a Prius is because
“it’s the only car you can drive which costs under $35,000 which doesn’t make everyone think that your career has gone down the toilet”.
Mike Lorrey (15:05:49) :
“LOL. I was involved in selling Travolta his Pilatus Porter turboprop, which had previously been used in filming Air America with Mel Gibson. He’s quite the flying nut. Apparently Cruise picked up the flying bug from him, that Earth Communications Office sounds like a scientology front organization. which from googling appears to be so. Famous scilons are notorious about security and private travel accomodations”.
Great, so do you say Scientology is all behind this?
Anyone actually taking anything scientologers do seriously??
And of course lets not forget the most famous enviro-hypocrite of all, our friend, mentor and planet savour, Al Gore. Some fun facts about Al Gore:
* He and his wife live in a 20-room mansion that uses 20 times more electricity than an average American house
* He travels around the world in a private jet. Sure maybe he doesn’t fly it, but the impact is the same.
* He has a toxic waste dump on his family farm. Yes you are reading that correctly; a toxic waste dump.
* He has a Zinc mine on his farm which pollutes the surrounding ground water.
* He bought ocean front property after “Inconvenient Truth” came out.
* He bought a huge house boat that runs with a monster diesel engine.http://www.surfacestations.org/
* He is reported to be driven around in big SUV style limos and with the engine idling when he is not in the limo to keep the temperature comfortable for when he comes back to it after giving talks on how everyone needs to do with less.
This is just the stuff we know about. I can’t imagine he ‘survives’ with one measely ocean front vacation property for example. I’d be very surprised if he has less than 5 houses personally.
But, but, but…..It’s all required to “Raise Awareness” and “Save the Children” (heh, heh. Not to mention the insider trading info ).
Don’t know how that link to surface stations got there … oh well, good site 😉
Drink wine and preaching to drink water.
Oecologists as oekologists are.
Travolta and company are revolting. Giant egos, tiny brains. Screw him. I do my traveling in a 24 year old Ford Ranger.
“But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.” Luke 11:46
To the well-heeled with their fleets of private jets:
Practice what you preach. Us peasants already recycle, not because of the gospel you preach, but out of necessity. We scrimp, we save, we keep the heat down in the winter, not to save the planet, but to save our wallets. And as for Ms. Crowe … I hope to never share the same air in a room which she may occupy. Purely a matter of health & hygiene.
Many years ago Paul Ehrlich appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Johnny ask why, with Ehrlich being such a critic of population growth and the consumption of world resources, would he wear expensive suits ($200 then was expensive) and travel so much. His answer was that as long as he had “figuratively” been booked on the Titanic he might as well go first class.
The point is these AGW folks really believe Earth is doomed unless they can stop others from producing CO2. This justifies their supposedly short term ‘over the top’ CO2 production.
Really rich people, such as movie stars, live by their own rules.
Warwick Hughes (14:58:52) :
That would mean the IPCC itself is worthless (not that I didn’t already know that).
1 sheet of toilet paper huh! Some trick! How does that work for any other male out there? Snip if you want I just couldn’t resist!
Let us not forget uber-hypocrite Barbra Streisand with her 6 homes, a 12,000 sq ft air-conditioned barn and a lawn that requires $20000 a YEAR to water.
Aaaah Copehagen central – double the size of Bali creating the carbon footprint of a medium size country
http://twawki.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/back-to-basics-whats-good-for-the-environment/