Goalpost-moving eco-hypocrite Sting:
“I’m assuming you didn’t come here on a donkey, right? Tomorrow, I’m going to get on a plane and go to another city and admittedly my carbon footprint is massive. At the same time, I say we shouldn’t rip up the forest because if you read the Stern report, all of us could stop traveling tomorrow, industry could stop tomorrow, but the largest contribution to global warming is deforestation – by a huge, huge amount. So until we do that, we might as well just carry on.”
That’s not just moving the goalposts. That’s moving the entire flipping STADIUM.
And the solution to deforestation? Burn down villages in Africa, murdering children and threatening to kill anyone who won’t leave, so you can plant trees there!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/25/they-had-to-burn-the-village-to-save-it-from-global-warming/
But hey, it’s all for the good of Mother Gaia, and it’s only the *peasants* being killed – right, Sting?
we planted 500 million trees in northern ontario, sting planted zero.
And Stink’s Fender bass is made of?
Money may not buy love, but it buys a whole lot of options. 🙂
Apparently it buys the right to be irrelevant in public.
He’s kind of gay but not.
Just one more really good reason to continue boycotting the hell out of MSM. Idiotic interviews of mentally challenged entertainers.
O cripes and all the Liberal arts majors that chose to smoke dope and bury the saplings while “tree planting” went on their resumes’ as a summer job..
We plant the trees, Sting fertilizes them.
I know, I know…let’s call the Police!!
Oh yeah, he was member of that band…
A little later in the article Sting is saved by the wife:
‘She tells me I’m being silly when I’m being silly.’ Sting with Trudie Styler in April 2011.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Regarding the Hypocrisy from yet another fading rock star … When all the humans are finally gone, there will be a planet of nothing but trees, small wildlife (we will take all the big ones out with us). There will be lot’s of clean rivers, lakes, fresh rains, snow, heat, light, clouds, oceans, birds … Just no people.
Someday when we are all gone, earth will renew itself and it will be place of natural beauty. However, it will be a lot less interesting without a human population screwing everything up, while also doing and accomplishing amazing things.
When we are gone, who will be around to appreciate the universe?
It is our time on this planet and to quote the great Jimi Hendrix – “I live my life the way I want to”.
Screw Sting and all the rest of the humanity haters. I am proud of my carbon.
I’m not going to comment on the irrelevance of entertainer’s, actor’s, and artist’s opinion on any matter other than their “art”.
The relevant matter is that CAGW is a non-existant problem. DONE! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!
Sting is a pussy.
“Already huge swaths of the world are being released from farming and reforested. New England is now 80 per cent woodland, where it was once 70 per cent farm land. Italy and England have more woodland than for many centuries. Moose, coyotes, beavers and bears are back in places where they have not been for centuries. France has a wolf problem; Scotland a deer problem. It is the poor countries, not the affluent ones, that are losing forest. Haiti, with its near total dependence on renewable power (wood), is 98-percent deforested and counting.”
But do read the whole thing, http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/room-all
In my neck of the woods here in Nova Scotia the trees were turned into boats and ships and the land cleared for sustenance farming over 200 years ago, now it’s all reverting to brush and forest.
Until someone can prove any of the superficial green marketing schemes and carbon racket can even produce a noticeable effect, I suggest we just carry on as if all this carbon reduction jabbering is just a costly placebo for frightened yuppies.
Who cares what idiots like Sting and Bono or any of the rest of these bozos think.There is plenty of re-forestation taking place in North America,in fact there are more trees right now than at any time in the last 300 years.They want to be concerned about a lack of trees let them go preach to those well respected environmentalists in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria for a start.
“Miso soup and shredded lettuce salad”
WOW!!
He wears camouflage pants, WOW!
That’s awesome, Sting is Awesome, he’s like, the greatest guy in the whole wide world.
The trade was that if Sting, Bono and their ilk promoted AGW, they in turn would get tremendous midia and UN coverage. (anyone remember Bono and Paul Martin? – I wonder how many extra albums tax dodging U2 sold due to all the Green publicity they recieved here and elsewere)
Now the gig is up and its time to move on. This carcass has been picked over, time for eco-entertainment complex to move on to the next carcass. By jet of course.
For balance, perhaps this articles should contain interviews with Ted Nugent.
Hey Sting!
When you’re up in your private jet, look out the window.
See that big yellow thing?
Main factor in temperature variance.
Humans are just specs of sand on the beach.
The real scam..sting in all this, was Chretien signing away our ability to use our (worlds largest natural carbon sink) forests, to offset any penalties imposed by carbon trading.
We would have been excempt from paying anything.!!
It was deliberate, the Liberals had $billions$ stashed away to fund companies planting trees just like the one mentioned in the article.
The mother of all scams/frauds ..carbon trading!
The Harper government, reclaimed those $billions$, refused to surrender our cash to the scam, and the cap and trade house of cards began to crumble.
Very interesting times ahead.
OK someone please enlighten me. The only Stig I know is the tame racing driver on Top Gear.
. “Moose, coyotes, beavers and bears are back in places where they have not been for centuries. France has a wolf problem; Scotland a deer problem.”
Those folks need to learn a fine old Canadian tradition,HUNTING.
I’m just making a deer stew from the last of last season’s bambi,the house is filled with a delicious smell.
Does anyone else out there put an ounce of whiskey in their stew just before it finishes cooking?
What a hypocrite he is… this from an article in “Mail Online” Sept 28 2011…
The former Police singer has become involved in an almighty planning row after an anonymous whistleblower tipped off the local council about illegal buildings on his Wiltshire estate…. As a tax exile, the singer is rarely at the estate. His wife Trudie lives there when she is not at the couple’s London home. Sting himself can most often be found – especially over the summer months – in Tuscany living on an even larger estate called Pallagio a few miles south of Florence
@ dmorris
Whiskey evaporates too quickly. Wine works great on Bambi and swamp donkey.
Another privileged member of the entertainment industry becomes a self-appointed expert on “environmentalism”, “human rights”, and the whole shebang.
I love how the author describes Sting in his “…grey camouflage-patterned combat trousers, playing a harmonica…” Yep, Sting’s no phony — he obviously just got back from combat in Afghanistan and is reminiscing with a moving harmonica tune on his role as a freedom fighter while there.
Has Sting actually ever been to a rainforest? Has he ever actually tried to survive in one? It’s man against nature out there — if you even get a small cut on your body it can turn gangrenous within hours, and you can be dead by the next day and food for the vultures. The “balance of nature” is essentially maintained by constant competing and balancing interests for survival between all of the species, including man. It is not a conflict-free “garden of Eden” out there.
I love it when mother nature shows us who’s boss with an “act of God” — when “environmentalists” are shown that they can’t even save themselves when nature’s power is unleashed, much less “save” nature from herself with our puny attempts to control her.
Guys, only celebrities can be hypocrites.
Does anyone else out there put an ounce of whiskey in their stew just before it finishes cooking?
Posted by: dmorris at September 28, 2011 1:41 PM
Well, maybe Bourbon, but certainly not Rye…
Well, certainly not ‘real’ rye, like Alberta Springs Rye Whisky.
I guess if you wanted to pour in a shot or two of that CC stuff, that wouldn’t be a sacrilege.
couldn’t get through the first couple paragraphs. mind numbingly booooring
and of course gore’s ‘simple experiment’ to ‘prove’ his CO2 fetish was faked…big time..and very poorly so…where did the money for post-production go ? probably into the power bill for his castle……
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/28/video-analysis-and-scene-replication-suggests-that-al-gores-climate-reality-project-fabricated-their-climate-101-video-simple-experiment/
Stink….says it all!!!!!
Hey if you cooking guys don t mind i ll just drink the whiskey and use the stew for a chaser.
Well, I’ve always liked Sting’s music.
However, I generally make it a rule to pay no great heed to the opinions of wealthy celebrities.