She recycles and has tossed away her children’s plastic sippy cups. Concerned with carbon emissions, she is about to replace the Barnetts’ two family cars with hybrids. “I turn the water off when I’m brushing my teeth,” she said. “I’m always learning, I’m always trying to improve.”
Plus, she may consider energy saving bulbs.
For the utility rooms.
In both homes.
Via Glenn;
Laurie David, the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” and global warming activist, told Texas A&M students to change their “individual behavior” in order to consume fewer resources and to help battle global warming. As an employee of Easterwood Airport, I would like to point out that Mrs. David flew to our campus in a luxurious private jet, which could be seen from 10 miles away due to the thick plume of smog it left in its wake.
She’s building a 26 foot long barbeque station at her summer home at Martha’s Vineyard.
Oh she’s sooo Toyota Pius
I just about hurled halfway through the story. If this passes as an example of .. wel leadership, America, and us along with it are doomed. Mediocrity.. well that about sums it.
You forgot to turn off the italics, Kate. Do you know how wasteful that is? They’re pouring out all over the place.
I “turn the water off when I brush my teeth” as a matter of course, and have done so since I learned to brush ’em, 45 or so years ago. The biggest energy-saver with lights is “turn off the ones you aren’t using to see with,” a course of action I was taught before I was ten years old. We had a compost pile in the 60s when I was a kid.
Why are common sense actions so often identified in the media these days as “eco”?
I tried to turn italics off in my own post (and it looked like it worked in preview), but the closing tag got rejected when I posted.
Sounds more like she’s bought into the low self worth and pointless self sacrifice of green communism.
she and her husband paid $310 million for Shaklee?
no wonder she is on the austerity program .
there is just no end of hyprocricy amoungst the
ultra rich socialite socialists. remember the Trudeaus- rich off of Imperial oil.
Not once did any of them say they would make any serious commitment to anything energy-saving, let alone “eco-friendly”. We need another French Revolution, only this time a little different. Put her in the ghetto,and let them move into her houses. Isn’t this what the socialists want? Equality?
It’s almost painful to think of so much money in the hands of such utter simpletons.
All she and her socialite friends have to do (along with those committed Hollywood stars, Al Gore and Doc Suzuki) is adopt my simple “ecodownscaling” plan.
It’s really very straightforward: first, they all reduce their carbon footprint and ecological impact down to my economic level.
Naturally, that means disposing of all excess property, possessions and wealth until they are on a level with my situation.
Then I’ll happily join them as we “ecodownscale” to the next level below. And so on, and so on.
I’m ready anytime!
(But I ain’t holdin’ my breath.)
No wonder that Larry David guy is such a schlemiel…
Here is a link to an excellent interview by Linda Frum with Dr. Richard Lindzen in Saturday’s National Post. Prof. Lindzen is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and he has some very interesting things to say about climate change and some pithy comments on the Goreacle.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ebd65ed3-80c2-441b-98ca-c4fbc7233e96
She tossed away her children’s plastic cup? Isn’t it less wasteful just to keep using them?
Garth, you are so right. Somehow common sense has been lost and these people can’t seem to just think for themselves.
I read this morning that Cheryl Crow’s big new idea for saving the planet was for everyone to use, get this,….. only one square of toilet paper per sitting. This thing gets funnier by the minute.
Why it is that the rich socialists get the press for apparently no other reason than being rich socialists. Though it is understandable that the ‘reporters’ would rather hobnob with the rich and preferably socialists than a more mundane people who actually have to get up in the morning and work their ass off to make a living.
Then the ‘journalists’ report these characters pronouncements as something so seriously profound that the people who read it should really fall on their knees in awe.
That people do these things daily because of necessity, of course makes no news.
Now the world just needs to wait and see if the rich socialists stop using the toilets, as not to flush all that garbage into the rivers everywhere.
I mispelled –
She’s sooo Toyota Pious … makes much more sense and dosen’t look like a typo.
or is she purchasing a Kyoto Pious
“I read this morning that Cheryl Crow’s big new idea for saving the planet was for everyone to use, get this,….. only one square of toilet paper per sitting. This thing gets funnier by the minute.”
Thats because people like her, Gore, Dion and Suzuki think their S&*t dosen’t stink.
I’m sure Ms. David would claim that her flights were “carbon neutral”, having purchased her “carbon offsets” from Al Gore’s company, Terra Pass.
The hypocrites have it covered all ways.
What a crock.
The only thing these elitist simpletons understand is money, or lack thereof.
Boycott their products,music, music and I am sure being an eco-idiot will no longer be en vogue.
As for Earth Day; I took great pleasure in using more fuel, power, water and LOTS OF TOILET PAPER!
I just watched part of ‘An Inconvenient Truth” on cable — I couldn’t bear to watch it all. At one point Al Gore makes the claim that he has given his presentation over 2000 times, all over the world. I am guessing that he charged less initially for his appearances, but if you assume an average price of US $50,000 per talk, this works out to >US $100,000,000. Not a bad gross! Not surprisingly, no one in the media appear to have made the point that perhaps Al has a slight conflict of interest here — not only is he a principal in a carbon trading company, but he is on his way to the billionaire club, via giving scary presentations in person or through his movie. I wouldn’t mind so much, if it was gullible people freely giving of their own money — unfortunately, it appears that much public money is flowing into Al’s pockets, indirectly through universities, school boards, and various levels of government.
I’m waiting for one of them to call for a ban on feminine hygiene products.
Old Chemist – I made a deal with my sister. I would watch an inconvenient truth if she read Lomberg’s Skeptical Environmentalist.
With great effort I did NOT put my foot through my power hungry 52 inch DLP. She lived up to her end of the bargin. Guess who is having second thoughts now. It ain’t me 😉
Good show, Jim!
The list for Hypocrite of the month/year/century is getting longer by the minute. It’s going into the realm of comedy to call for one square of toilet paper per sitting. File that under why bother unless your a gnat.
Yeah what a load of bull kaka from the liberal wussietards their all screwballs and hypotcrits urging us all to tread lightly and with dumb bumper stickers reading THE EARTH IS YOUR MOTHER and AL GORE is the biggist source of HOT AIR he keeping his fat piehole constantly flapping
Let’s have some sympathy with those honest folk who buy into the AGW theory. They’re your typical citizens who wants to do the ‘right thing’. It just so happens that these folks are a wee bit more swayed by the opinions of famous personalities than your average less-government-is-better citizen. It must be horrifying for your average pro-AGW person to see all their spokespeople (not just the obscure ones, the main messengers) unable to practice what they preach. At some point these people will (we hope) realize they’ve been duped by people who have no scruples about using their ‘fame’ to push a cause that they’re unwillng to make personal sacrifice for. One has to question the motives of somebody who publicly promotes a message but is shown to privately make no efforts to live that message.
At least the people who we tend to disagree with in here (I expect) are trying to practice what they preach (nod towards albatross, et al).
JJM bang on when they get to my level I’ll cut too.
You will know they really believe in global warming when the price of waterfront property at Martha’s Vinyard starts to come down as they all start to unload it before the floods come. Does anybody know what the recent trends have been in the price of ocean front property?
Did any msm ask this gal if she still bought disposable diapers? Does her ‘daycare’ use disposable diapers? Filthy diapers do not decompose for YEARS and the untrained two and three year olds are not pooping runny no toxic wastes. My mom did not use pampers and all us kids were trained by one and one half years of age.
She is another hoax for an agenda driven frenzied outfit who want a carbon tax to enslave the people of the world. It makes so much logical sense that this is the agenda that it challanges the mind to wonder why people are not blasting those power hungry fanatics every time they appear in public.
“It’s almost painful to think of so much money in the hands of such utter simpletons”
There it is! summed up in a nutshell.
One set of rules for we lowly peasants; another for the “enlightened” “progressives”.
Where would a Lefty be without his/her hypocrisy? To their thinking processes, it’s like a well-tailored suit, so comfortable that they become unaware of wearing it.
“It’s almost painful to think of so much money in the hands of such utter simpletons.
Posted by: Kate at April 23, 2007 9:35 AM”
Who are you talking about? Alberta, Saskatchewan or maybe both?
We all know that these enviromentalists groups are a big rip off i mean they get you to send in $500 so they can save the wolf and in return you get a canvas tote or a little stuffed toy ITS ALL A RIP OFF
as i heard earlier today Cheryl means for us to use both sides of that same sqare.
Gore Travels in Style
April 23, 2007
Inside the Brandt Centre, he may have been preaching his “Inconvenient Truth”.
But, the truth of the matter is, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore travels in style, when he goes from place-to-place to explain how people need to take care of the environment.
Take for instead, his mode of both, air and ground transportation. Since Gore only travels in hybrid vehicles, the Lexus that got him from the airport to the Brandt Centre was just that — an $80,000 hybrid.
Turning now to the air, with the fuel Gore’s private plane used for this trip, you could probably take your vehicle and travel back and forth between Vancouver and Halifax about four-and-a-half times.
Gore chartered a Falcon 200, a twin-engine jet that seats nine. The distance travelled between Nashville, Regina, over to Calgary for an event Monday night, and then home to Nashville, totals more than 4,500 kilometres..
According to local aviation experts, the Falcon 200 burns about 215 imperial gallons of fuel per hour. Based on distance and expected flying time, about 1,800 gallons of fuel will be used.
We’re basing the comparison on the travel to a vehicle with a 60-litre tank, that can travel about 400 kilometres without having to re-fuel.
Brent Pushkarenko and Patrick Book reporting
Oh, and there is this:
More than 400 students from elementary to post-secondary levels received free tickets to Gore’s presenta
Sorry I’m late. Just rushed in from having a campfire in my backyard.
In town you can have small open fires in a proper firepit. They just don’t want you burning smelly garbagelike stuff. But cardboard, and torndown fences well they’re perfect.
Y’know something else? I feel the earth is a little warmer now.Can’t wait for tomorrow night and “camp” some more. My longterm goal is to get our weather up to , hmm say Hawaii. That’s what I’m reaching for. Gotta set high goals!!!
So, you are only to use one sheet at a time. How long before the tissue makers start making sheets the size of paper towel rolls or christmas wrap.
For all you disposable diaper bashers, how do you suppose those cloth ones get clean?
A lot of clean, hot water. Far more wasteful in terms of energy……..
Good point about that ‘clammy’ feeling, looks like Mansbridge might’ve had that feeling interviewing the leader of Isreal. Wonder if it’s incentive for him to ‘change’?
Ms Crow should know about the old clasic margerine ad ITS NOT NACE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE sue ins storm on Ms Crows concerts