Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole; In 2016 Extinction Rebellion founder Gail Bradbrook boasted on social media or taking an expensive holiday flight to Costa Rica, racking up around 11,000 air miles for the round trip.
‘Hypocrisy’ of Extinction Rebellion founder’s 11,000-mile trip to Costa Rica as she boasted of taking a luxury long-haul holiday on social media
- XR leader Gail Bradbrook had £2,500 stay at New Life Iboga resort in Costa Rica
- Trip racked up a 2.6 ton carbon footprint – a quarter of a Brit’s year average
- She said the holiday was ‘filled with nature and warm sea’ on Facebook post
- Tory MP Paul Scully says it is ‘blind hypocrisy’ from group disrupting travel plans
By DANIEL MARTIN POLICY EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 11:59 AEDT, 14 October 2019 | UPDATED: 19:11 AEDT, 14 October 2019The founder of the eco-activist group Extinction Rebellion boasted of a luxury long-haul holiday on social media just three years ago.
Gail Bradbrook racked up 11,000 air miles when she flew to Costa Rica in 2016 to stay at the £2,500 luxury New Life Iboga resort.
The 47-year-old, pictured, helped to set up the protest group last year and it has called for a drastic reduction in the number of flights taken.
But Dr Bradbrook’s Central American trip had a carbon footprint of 2.6 tonnes – a quarter of the amount that the average Briton emits in a whole year.
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To be fair, extinction rebellion was founded in 2018, so maybe between 2016 and 2018 Gail had a green epiphany and renounced her former carbon sins. A month ago Gail revealed how she started the group after taking psychedelic drugs.
But it is fair to demand Gail clarify Extinction Rebellion’s position on whether climate leaders are still allowed to fly. A few months ago actress Emma Thompson flew 5400 miles to participate in an Extinction Rebellion anti-flying protest, not a peep of protest from Extinction Rebellion leadership at Emma Thompson’s blatant climate hypocrisy.
The way I see it, greens like Gail Bradbrook and Emma Thompson want to create a future where only the little people lose their flying privileges.
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All must be allowed to the XR climate warriors so that they can implement their brilliant actions everywhere to save the planet :
Petit_Barde
Ive only seen a few minutes, but lord above LOLol. I heard rave music, they all look high, stoned, wasted.. I do not want these people representing humanity… No way!! Also please everybody share that video
Green leaders are idiots. If “little” people stops flying then, soon after, no one flies for long.
The entire worldwide civil flying infra-structure is built on the contributions from mass travel.
Weather & navaids down, ETOPS will collapse due to a lack of alternates, air traffic control and it’s safety aspects will instantly become dysfunctional short of funds and, finally, no one would distillate kerosene for such a small demand.
A situation that would quickly limit the lucky ones to cross-country hops in a chaotic decaying fleet with marginal safety statistics as industry will not be able to supply innovation and components to a profitable market.
They can of course nationalize all aviation resources and turn it in what climate science already is: -A state funded parade of cumulative incompetence.
We really need to stop taking the bait. Extinction Rebellion is run by postmodern neo-marxists, who, as a matter of philosophical principle, don’t care one whit about climate change or any other ‘issue’. They are rebelling against Western thought, Western civilization and the capitalism that makes Western civilization thrive and prosper. Western civilization is built on hierarchies of competence in valued skills, and since they have no valued skills, they want to destroy it and replace it with a systems that reward them for being useless! The only systems that do that are bureaucracy and socialism.
Issues are just tools to gain power and control. There is no genuine concern for the climate or anything else, other than power and control. People with power and control can go to Costa Rico Resorts anytime they want.
That’s the whole point.
Hi James, you’re spot on with your assessment of the founding members of XR. see http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html for details.
People aren’t so green, or maybe they are. Time will tell. In the meantime, it’s good to be Green.
“A few months ago actress Emma Thompson flew 5400 miles to participate in an Extinction Rebellion anti-flying protest”
First Class too.
The UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, has recently told BP that it will no longer accept financial support from BP because BP is a wicked fossil fuel company.
In January 2020 the RSC is taking Timon of Athens on tour to the USA – Washington DC and New York. How are they going to get to the USA and how are the theatres in which they perform going to be heated?
I sniff hypocrisy!
Stoic
They will go on the same 5 million pound fossil fuel powered boat the co2 seeing puppet took, then they will ride horses between Dc and new york Lolol. The stupidity of these people is unbelievable
Sunny, the 5 million pound boat the co2 seeing puppet took was not fossil fuel powered (it was powered by sail for propulsion, and solar and underwater turbines for light and communication according to news reports). It was, however, made from fossil fuels and lots of them (the boat is made of carbon-fibre, which is 14 times as energy-intensive as producing steel). On top of that the crew that took her to the US flew back to Europe and another crew flew in to the US from Europe to take the boat back. Assuming all the members of the respective crews booked their flights together (rather than each taking a separate flight), that makes her little jaunt across the ocean have, at an absolute minimum, twice the carbon footprint as if she’d simply got on a plane herself
Oh you mean Greta Getaways.
A sign of things to come. Maybe with a little wink of the eye from the Tributes of Panem or the handmaiden’s tale. Climate extremists consider themselves part of the privileged class for which all the restrictions they want to foist upon us don’t count. But it also shows extreme arrogance. How did they think that this would not break?
Bit like the guy in Australia doing rebellion protests while living with Mummy and Daddy in their waterside mansion. They seem to just be egotistical attention seekers.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/bikini-model-sisters-of-uni-dropout-activist-who-lives-in-his-parents-waterfront-mansion-support-the-green-extremist-as-hes-arrested-for-the-sixth-time-and-family-plans-to-ask-you-to-pay-his-fines/ar-AAFqAto
Yep but surely this bloke will save us all….
Mike
What did I just watch 😢 How are celebrities supporting these people?? Is life that boring that these people need to sound/look uneducated, just to have five minutes of fame? This board is made of plastic, his clothes to, the blue milk crates are pure plastic..
”What did I just watch 😢”
The second coming …obviously 🙂
lasted 2.5mins
he looked like he needed the loo with all the wriggling
and i kept giggling at the get up being worn
I didn’t watch, but the still image… They can’t put their stuff on the ground, so they use PLASTIC milk crates as tables. These people aren’t serious about anything except attention wh*ring.
We need to tell them about the invisible bridge going over the grand canyon…
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213787-extinction-rebellion-founder-calls-for-mass-psychedelic-disobedience/
“The way I see it, greens like Gail Bradbrook and Emma Thompson want to create a future where only the little people lose their flying privileges.”
There is surely a mispelling there :
The way I see it, greens like Gail Bradbrook and Emma Thompson want to create a Future where only the the little number of surviving people have flying privileges on Fridays.
There, fixed it.
For details about the founders and other significant members of XR see http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html
” .. Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the climate .. never say we’re a climate movement .. we’re not.
We’re a Rebellion .. coming together through .. mass political action that breaks the law. It’s the most effective way .. to actually create a crisis in society .. Through mass civil resistance, we’re going to create a new global regime .. we are creating a separate, true, fundamental democracy .. Extinction Rebellion is .. just about democracy .. we are calling for a fundamental change of the political and economic system .. We believe .. that confrontation through mass civil disobedience is necessary .. “.
” .. Hands Up! I run a charity and its mostly about securing your own salary .. “
a global regime will be totalitairian by nature.
A worldwide USSR.
It was Roger Hallan, the “brains” behind XR, who declared ” .. create a new global regime .. “. For more on that prat see sub-section 3.1.2 of http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html
my father many times told the story of a young and idealistic couple that somewhere 1935 from the Netherlands travelled east to help raise the labourers good-state. Never ever something was heard from them. They disappaered completely.
Don’t be lured by propaganda, feelings or intentions.
Judge the world on what you see. Judge people for what they do.
May I ask what you are doing to fight the climate crisis matey?
May I ask what climate crisis matey? (hint: there isn’t one except in the fantasy-world of climate models)
Hi Holmes, and what climare crisis would that be – The fanticised one scaremongered by the UN’s IPCC and other CACC supporters!!!???!!!
The huns settled the transdanubian lowlands at Lake Balaton.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNTW27behdU1qFHTc6zaA3j5RpUSVQ%3A1572244022357&ei=Noq2Xdm5FbKKmwXfxa64Aw&q=lake+balaton&oq=lake+balaton&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
This is the european stronghold for emperors from the East.
It’s where the mongol hords erected their yurts.
Their predecessors were the Avars, whose predecessors were Thracians, Skyths, Boii, Parthians, Medes and Elamites – whatever was washed away with the foreign warriors from the East.
passed down as the location of the Nibelungenlied.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Nibelungenlied&client=ms-android-huawei&authuser=1&prmd=ivsn&sxsrf=ACYBGNTsAdLNZrmVoL0rJ28rKnreGYN5aw:1572246185708&lr=lang_en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pe7sb7lAhXMwcQBHS4cA6EQuAEIJw&biw=360&bih=518