they walk down the road saying im a good environmental wako
But then FLY back the three blocks in a 747

Morons

when i see every last enviornmeltalist in the middle of the desert living in a hand made tent

then i might listen to them

but not untill

their all hypocrytes

Yet another story showing that the environmental movement is about seizing power not saving the environment…
LincolntheHun on February 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Its about greed. Algore and many others have made fortunes on this and become powerful in a very dangerous way. They use fear for this also, just as was done with the stimulus bill. Paltrow spent a lot of time tooling around Spain with friends in a couple of Mercedes wasting gas to taste the local cuisine and sold the filming of that to public television. So we paid for that also. Ed Begley also made a show on his green lifestyle, but I think he at least really does as he says. Its about greed, not green.

These people are up late at night reading Das Kapital and stuff, working hard for Socialism.

So, give them a break if they devote their time and energies for the Proletariat rather than sticking insulation stripping around their doors and windows.

Not only that, they’re probably too high to do it right anyway…just my guess here.

Perhaps you mean they are wasting a kilowatt, on average? Or a kilowatt-hour per day? (But even that isn’t much compared to a normal heating load.)

Or perhaps it’s a megawatt-hour per year. That’s a bit closer to being significant, just 10,000 hours of a 100-watt bulb.

If they want to act as scolds, then they should first put their own houses in order — literally.

Liberal politicians (entertainers, ect.) apparently only pay their taxes when they are caught.

Now that the sermon is over, can we finally begin choir practice?

MarkTheGreat on February 17, 2009 at 11:15 A

Like I said, the issue we need to focus on is not hypocrisy it is propaganda. Calling them out for hypocrisy gives the impression we believe in the cause – and only care that they are not doing more. We don’t want them doing more. We want them to shut up and do less. Forget the hypocrisy, concentrate on the lie.

The only person I’ve seen put his money where his mouth is on green living is Ed Begley, Jr.

Yep.

It’s not unusual to see him riding his bike around the valley, not to mention his electric car.

We have our own Chicken Little hypocrites here, too.

You forgot one, Ed. Mr. “We can’t keep our thermostats at 72° but he’s from Hawaii.”

Going on TV and talking about how green everyone should be makes them feel like they’re doing their part. Then, they get fan mail from the peasants that are probably full of all the green things that the prominent person inspired them to do. This, in turn, makes them feel even better about all they’ve done for the earth. And, on occasion, they’ll even do something like turn a light off and eat a dinner in the dark or not turn the heat all the way up when it gets cold and they’ll feel even better about their efforts.

Then, when folks start yelling about how energy inefficient they are, they feel unfairly attacked because of all the good they’ve done. They look at their balance sheet of carbon goodness and feel that they’re a net positive and other people are just picking on them and, of course, no one’s perfect and I’m going to get to that eventually and so on and so forth.

The only person I’ve seen put his money where his mouth is on green living is Ed Begley, Jr.

…and for that he is mocked, even among his own. Doesn’t Ed know how cool hypocrisy is?

They should revisit each of the homes in 3 months to see if any of them have bothered to do anything about it.

What’s not true?

All the comments? The one before your comment or just your comment?

jmarcure on February 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Sorry, wrong thread. Somehow I posted this here instea

carbon credits = the ability to legitimize a hypocrites mentality. (see Al Gore)

Rovin on February 17, 2009 at 10:22 AM

Hey, indulgences have a long tradition in western civilization.

Interestingly, yet another way that environmentalism looks more and more like neo-feudalism.

B Hussein O is leaving a huge carbon footprint, flying to Chicago for VD dinner and on to Denver to sign Porkulus.

OmahaConservative on February 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Yep, and the jumbo jet AF-1 burns 10,000 gallons of aircraft fuel EACH WAY. Just so he can have his picture taken signing the sh!t sandwich in front of a solar array.

Talk about glaring hypocrisy.

A number of “green” celebrities and politicians in Britain who push all kinds of “green” policies on the public are, themselves, wasting massive amounts of home heat. From the UK……