Josh has a nice travel sticker for suitcases to offset this stupidity. From the National Post:
One of Greenpeace’s most senior executives commutes 400 kilometres each way to work by plane, the environmental group has admitted.
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One volunteer described the arrangement as “almost unbelievable.” Another said they would cancel their direct debit donation following a series of disclosures about financial mismanagement in documents leaked to The Guardian newspaper.
Pascal Husting, the international program director at Greenpeace International, said he began “commuting between Luxembourg and Amsterdam” when he took the job in 2012 and currently made the round trip about twice a month.
The flights, costing about $365 return, are paid by Greenpeace, even though it campaigns to cut air travel, arguing that the growth in flying “is ruining our chances of stopping dangerous climate change.”
Lots of stories (here and here) about Greens flying round the globe and generally living it large – they have no shame really do they.
Is this that organisation on Putin’s pay-list, trying to stop fracking in the EU?
What a bunch of air heads.
I used to work for the Climate Reality Project… The CEO and the head of Legal both commuted from Denver to DC on a weekly basis. No one there saw any problem with this for some reason.
It’s really very simple. Everyone is equal, it’s just that some are more equal than others.
Josh great cartoon. It hits the mark as it is based on reality!
>One volunteer described the arrangement as “almost unbelievable.”
That’s it in a nutshell. The science is complicated. There is seemingly logical information supporting both sides of the “argument”. The problem that the “believers” can not possible fathom that those whom they perceive as the “good people” are actually liars, cheats, manipulators and scoundrels – in it only for the money and power. It is completely unbelievable to them. They think that they will “get the money” and take it away from greedy capitalists conservative, who are already rich. Legions of useful idiots consider no possibility that they have nothing coming in this scam, except cozy belief and being in the “everybody knows” camp.
I wonder what the total number of flight miles per annum the Greenpeace warriors and their “guests” do in “saving the planet” (including their donation drives) . It would be interesting to see how it compared with a company of a comparable size, or even compared with the evil fossil fuel industry.
And while we’re at it, there are too many people on this planet. I want all the rest of you to get off. Me and my Greenpeace posse, we’re cool. We can stay.
(/another point of GP hypocrisy)
Their motto: Leave nothing but your footprints behind…in the air…in front of buildings…circled around forest trees…on the ocean with carbon spewing boats…It’s like a family circle cartoon gone mad with Billy tracking dirt around the globe in the air and on the ground.
Maybe Harrison Ford and the Greenpeace guy can go for cheeseburgers, each in their own plane.
Disassemble his aircraft, sell it for scrap. Sell his cars. Sell his house because it spits dirty stuff from the chimney. All this stuff pollutes their god mother Earth. Awww geeez man! You can’t drive anywhere because it pollutes! You can’t fly anywhere because it pollutes! And you expel dangerous gasses when you exhale too. You pollute too. Earth worshipping hypocrites.
Don’t do as I do, do as I say.
Ironically, these green CEOs (who are actually just career people in a lucrative field) are following the wise advice from James Delingpole. “I will refuse to feel guilty because I dare to exist.”
Thanks to President Putin though for helping them reduce their carbon footprint by kindly storing the Arctic Sunrise for them in the Port of Murmansk.
itsnotmeitsyou says:
I used to work for the Climate Reality Project… The CEO and the head of Legal both commuted from Denver to DC on a weekly basis. No one there saw any problem with this for some reason.
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Wow! Either this is a “convert” or a person who could act as a “mole”. Or someone who just woke up. It would be interesting to get some more info from this person as to their change in life and attitude(s).
itsnotmeitsyou says:
June 26, 2014 at 6:36 am
I used to work for the Climate Reality Project… The CEO and the head of Legal both commuted from Denver to DC on a weekly basis. No one there saw any problem with this for some reason.
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They probably think that their work is important enough to fly that frequently. They probably don’t think that their carbon footprint needs to be reduced – only the footprint of the peasants – and they probably consider everyone that’s not involved in the fight against CAGW to be a peasant.
itsnotmeitsyou says:
June 26, 2014 at 6:36 am
“I used to work for the Climate Reality Project… The CEO and the head of Legal both commuted from Denver to DC on a weekly basis. No one there saw any problem with this for some reason.”
That’s just the typical American larger-than-life high-octane environmentalism.
Didn’t Gillian Anderson even cross the Atlantic by plane to promote one of her environmentalist films, I think directed by that 10:10 exploding kids woman, Franny Armstrong? Oh I think it was actually an attempt at promoting that funny short film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Armstrong
” “In response to questions about the message of the film, Armstrong replied, “We ‘killed’ five people to make No Pressure – a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change”.”
I love that quote so much. Isn’t she just lovely? After retreating into the woods, she BTW gave birth to a new polluter(*).
(*) formerly known as H. Sapiens.
Air travel was brought to us by two American brothers who built the first light engine from parts in their bike bicycle shop. Today, all Americans can fly, own planes, send products all over the world, and receive items shipped by air world wide within days.
The heartless environmentalsts’ only goal is to end the use of air shipping and travel by the very people and free society which developed it. Class privileges are contrary to equality before the law, which provides that the laws apply equally to all people in our country. It is a problem that Congress now routinely passes restrictive legislation in health and business, and then simply issues waivers from these laws to their supporters.
Class privileges and separate laws for separate classes have been a reality for the rest of the world for millennia, and now the progressive scientists singlemindedly want to institute class privileges here, to “save the planet.” It is a testament to the illogic and gullibility of our times that any one believes that instituting class privileges will save the planet.
Some 20 years ago I was involved in a big fight with Greenpeace about the use of chlorine/PVC and the dioxin emissions from the incineration of waste products from the chlorine/VCM/PVC factory where I was working at that time. Some year, emission measurements of different types of ships (sea and river) were made for and published by the government. From these figures we could deduce that one Greenpeace ship probably emitted more dioxins (and orders of magnitude more PAH’s) by fighting chlorine/PVC than the factory producing 500,000 tons per year of VCM/PVC…
I asked them if they would publish the emission figures of their fleet, like was done by almost all chemical factories in Rotterdam each year. Never received an answer…
Hypocrites…
Max Hugoson says:
Wow! Either this is a “convert” or a person who could act as a “mole”. Or someone who just woke up. It would be interesting to get some more info from this person as to their change in life and attitude(s).
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I went into working for them as a kinda-sorta an environmentalist. I was interested in renewable energy sources and green tech. I thought it would be a good way to learn more about global warming and help a cause… boy was I wrong.
The hypocrisy that is rampant in that org only scratches the surface of the multitude of things I experienced while there that turned me into a full blown skeptic. The level of cognitive dissonance those people endure on a daily basis must be amazing. I watched as they wrote off any scientific studies that disagreed with them as “opinion”. We were given daily “talking points” that we were supposed to stick to in any arguments we had in real life, regardless of how ridiculous they were.
Once, I dared to show a small amount of skepticism while there. It was something along the lines of “well the planet will actually be just fine, the humans may be screwed, though.” You’d think I just called their mom a whore judging from the reactions I got. BLASPHEMER! HEATHEN!
I worked there during the “24 hours of Gore” BS. I had some issues with Bill Nye’s experiment and said so before production was done. (much the same issues that Anthony pointed out) I was told to keep my mouth shut and get with the program.
I left disheartened, but enlightened.
Note to Anthony:
If you would like to ask me any questions, I’d be happy to talk to you about my experience in the Cult of Gore.
Keep Climbing!
Leadership has two basic requisites, that the leader has done an action or that they be willing to do an action. Those who believe in population reduction should show leadership. The same with carbon reduction.
The subjects of the post are imperators not leaders.
You could write it up and dump it in the Submit Story tab.
Completely off topic so if the mods kill this, fair enough.
Congratrulations to the US for getting to the next phase of the World Cup.