{"id":259944,"date":"2023-05-31T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259944"},"modified":"2023-05-31T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:36:52","slug":"just-stop-oils-hollywood-patron-has-holiday-home-in-ireland-that-he-jets-off-to-when-the-going-gets-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259944","title":{"rendered":"Just Stop Oil\u2019s Hollywood Patron Has Holiday Home in Ireland That he Jets Off to \u201cWhen the Going Gets Tough\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0TOBY YOUNG<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A multi-millionaire Hollywood director who funds Just Stop Oil has a holiday home in Ireland \u2013 5,000 miles from Los Angels \u2013\u00a0that he jets off to when he needs a break. The\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Hollywood director helping to bankroll Just Stop Oil has been accused of hypocrisy over his lavish holiday home in Ireland \u2013 5,000 miles from his Los Angeles base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include The Big Short<\/em> and Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to \u2018disruptive\u2019 activists, including handing almost \u00a31million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. McKay is a director of the fund and has donated over \u00a33.2 million to it to support \u201crecruitment and training\u201d for groups including the British activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a webinar last year he pledged to help Just Stop Oil in any way possible and was even prepared to be arrested for their cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his financial commitment to environmentalism the director, who owns a \u00a36 million Los Angeles home, has described how he holidays in his eight-bedroom second home in rural Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 2020 Architectural Digest interview with Mr McKay and his wife, fellow writer-director Shira Piven, described how \u201cwhen the going gets tough\u201d the couple \u201ctake refuge in their 12-acre getaway in the Celtic countryside\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of his holiday home emerged as Just Stop Oil zealots were last week branded \u201cabsolute morons\u201d for permanently damaging a sustainable garden at the Chelsea Flower Show by hurling orange powder paint over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group were also criticised for a series of go-slow marches in London this week which caused mayhem for commuters \u2013 and on one occasion led to a workman being handcuffed by police as he tried to move them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Climate Emergency Fund launched in 2019 after the three founders\u2019 multi-million-pound homes in the exclusive Californian ocean-front city of Malibu nearly burnt down in bush fires which they blamed on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These included Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of billionaire oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, and Rory Kennedy who is the daughter of Senator Robert Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third founder, investor Trevor Neilson who is listed as owning a \u00a32.1 million home in Malibu, said they wanted to support \u201cdisruptive activists\u201d after becoming disillusioned by the slow approach of traditional environmental groups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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