Hollywood vs. The Environment

So, we've seen that the Hollywood community en mass have jumped on the Global Warming bandwagon and has made it their new pet cause. It's their new colored bracelet if you will. But what are they really doing for, or in this case, to, the environment? They go on talk shows and preach to us simple folk on how we should be living our lives to try and save Mother Earth. Hell, they're even going to be arriving at the Oscars tonight in environmental friendly "green limos". But do these people actually practice what they preach? Do they truly walk the walk rather than just talk the talk?

If this were one of their big budget movies, this is where the sinister music would come in.

A 2006 study done by UCLA discovered that the actual Hollywood industry itself is one of the largest polluters there is. Out shined only by "Big Oil". God, no wonder L.A. is coated in a think blanket of smog all the time. I guess you can get George Clooney to drive around town in a Tango but just try to take away his smoke belching air conditioned trailer.

John Travolta, who actually sits on the board of the Environmental Media Association, and was once even nominated for a Environmental Media Award, tools around the country in five private jets. Just image what his carbon footprint is. Actually, private jets seem to be the favorite toy of the stars.

Then we have Ted Kennedy and his nephew Robert Kennedy, Jr. We all know Bobby Jr.'s stance on the environment, and Teddy boy once said

We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right-wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming, and prevent the catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now.

Then, perhaps, the Kennedy's should give up their part ownership in the Arctic Royalty Trust which leases out land for oil drilling. But Teddy is honest about one thing. In his Blueprint For America, he said

We should reduce our dependence on foreign oil

Sure, that way we can start using your oil.

And that leads us to the Queen of Environmental Hypocrites. Barbara Streisand. Babs once said on a television interview

We are in a global warming emergency state.

Well, she sure ain't helping anything. Ms. Streisand once spent a whopping $22,000 to water her lawn and has a 12,000-square foot air conditioned barn in which she stores nothing but her memorabilia. That's a lot of waste. She even once told the American public that they should use clotheslines to dry their laundry. But you can look at pictures of her Malibu home and you'll not see one clothesline. Why? Because according to her publicist, what Babs said didn't necessarily applied to her.
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So the next time one of these people tries to tell us what we should be doing, perhaps we should ask them where they got their PhD in Climatology.

And this is only a small sample of the double standard. There are plenty more cases, but two hours on a post long enough for me.