Essay by Eric Worrall
Who are you to question your betters, peasant? Aristocrats break the rules they try to impose on others, because they believe their service justifies any personal excesses.
Jet-Powered Hypocrisy: Bill Gates Cites His Own Importance to Climate Debate for Massive Carbon Footprint
by SIMON KENT 8 Feb 2023
A self-regarding Bill Gates cited his own perceived centrality to the global climate debate for his constant use of private jets to travel the world.
Broadcaster Amol Rajan from the BBC asked Gates in an interview that aired last Friday how he responds to criticism he uses private planes generating outsized carbon emissions while urging political and business leaders to act aggressively against “climate change.”
Gates replied he more than offsets his own emissions by paying for the removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide. He was speaking after having flown to Kenya before the interview.
“Well, I buy the gold standard, of funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint,” the Microsoft co-founder said, repeating an argument often used by other members of the global elites.
Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/08/jet-powered-hypocrisy-bill-gates-cites-his-own-importance-to-climate-debate-for-massive-carbon-footprint/
The BBC video interview is available here.
Make no mistake, this is the elitist world Bill Gates and his fellow climate aristocrats seem intent on building.
Ordinary people might be coerced by carbon taxes into riding bicycles in all weather and eating fake meat produced by Bill Gates, but Gates and his wealthy climate aristocrat friends intend to keep at least some of the old world luxuries for themselves. They believe their good works justify any personal carbon footprint excesses.
The ultimate in “White Supremacy”.
More like “Wealth Supremecy.”
Gates is correct in doing the math on net carbon release to the atmosphere.
But all that proves is that he is just like all those rich nobles and merchants who purchased indulgences from the Catholic Church to make up for their outsized sinning. The end result of that practice was the Reformation, and the Catholic Church’s loss of control of much of the entire European continent and their worldwide colonial holdings. Prior to the Reformation, Popes were more powerful than any European king … after the Reformation, they were just another religious symbol with no real power at all.
There is a lesson in there somewhere.
“because they believe their service justifies any personal excesses”
Um…no.
That’s a rationalization, not a reason.
The reason is because they know damn good and well that they have no intention of living their lives according to the rules they set forth for the hoi polloi.
They are our betters…our aristocracy…our royalty. They DESERVE to have better things than the rest of us. It’s just not right that we little people have access to basically the same luxuries and extravagances (albeit on a smaller scale) as they do…so the obvious answer is to disallow us from accessing those luxuries. How can they possibly enjoy their extravagances when they know that Joe Middleclass can buy basically the same level of comfort and luxury at the local big box store?
Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” declaration is viewed as an illustration of how out of touch she was because only the elite had access to such extravagance. Now everyone can have cake whenever they want and the Marie Antoinette’s of the world simply cannot abide it.
but I’m sure his 3 kids fly commercial
I planted trees. Lots of them. They are capturing tons of carbon. Have been for 40 years. Where is my carbon credit.
When does the public get to see who was on the Lolitta Express. Amazing the guards all fell asleep when Epstein strangled himself and broke his hyoid bone in a modern medical miracle.
For much more about Bill Gates and why and how we need to prosecute him on every Contient, please see–https://www.ur1light.com/post/bill-gates-debugged-after-24-years-prosecuting-the-most-destructive-person-alive
Autocratic, dictatorial types ALWAYS impose onerous restrictions on the common people and at the same time, ALWAYS exempt themselves.
A wanna-be character in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where outlandish abject stupidity is a virtue and bureaucracy considered a life force
The good old “don’t do as I do, do as I say” excuse.
Ah, that old do as I say, not as I do law enacted by rich grifters – what Bill needs to understand is he’s no more important than any other human on this planet and his own carbon footprint is that of a small city of about 500,000 people just struggling to get through each day, day by day
The sheer brass neck hypocrisy of these elitist idiots is perverse
I watched a video on the Climeworks web site wherein they claimed they could not only stop climate change but reverse it.
They apparently do not realise that this reversal would also be a climate change. Would they like to go back to the Little Ice Age conditions?
There is also no thought that they are forcing their view of climate onto all other species, not just themselves. Some of us might like the way climate is changing (more greening, for instance)