Climate hypocrisy isn't an accident. It is the ultimate power move.
But their celebrity defenders only added fuel to the fire. “So stop lecturing us on how we live our lives and live by example,” responded one Briton.
Some people chalk up such hypocrisy to ignorance."They turn up with unnecessary entourages in helicopters or fast cars and then preach about saving the world,”an insider. “They just don’t seem to be aware that they’re the ones burning huge amounts of fossil fuels.” Such displays work because, unlike wealth, status is inherently subjective. The more of it you are perceived to have, the more of it you actually have.decide to flaunt their status. But neither did Harry and Meghan pledge to never fly private again nor did Thunberg cancel her trip.
The Christian revolution in morality was partly successful. The Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, elites paid for their sins with by purchasing “indulgences,” the predecessor to today’s carbon offsets, and 1,800 years later humankind made slavery illegal. Movie and TV stars, for the most part, stick to this implicit social contract. When they pick up a new cause they tend to engage in anodyne “awareness-raising" or advocate, at most, micro-actions, like not using plastic straws.
Al Gore wouldn’t have been busted by Associated Press for living in a 20-room home that used 12 times more energy than the average home in Nashville, Tennessee had he not claimed that “we are going to have to change the way we live our lives” to solve climate change. But all three show that it is impossible for even the most committed people to live “morally” if “morally” is defined as living without using fossil fuels, which are nearly 90% of our primary energy.
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