{"id":407971,"date":"2025-10-13T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407971"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:59:44","slug":"green-antoinettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407971","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Green Antoinettes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Leo DiCaprio to AOC, the new nobility moralizes about austerity while refueling their private jets. Their creed: \u2018Do as we say, not as we emit.\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Blaze Media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Politicians, celebrities, and billionaires who lecture ordinary people about their carbon footprints live by another set of rules. They travel by private jet, dine in excess, and retreat to mansions powered by the very energy sources they want banned. It\u2019s a spectacle of hypocrisy so pervasive, the media barely blinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even scientists who scold the public about emissions fly thousands of miles<\/a> to United Nations climate conferences \u2014 racking up the same greenhouse gases they claim will destroy the planet. This is two-tiered climate morality: Those with power indulge, while everyone else is told to sacrifice. Preaching austerity from a private jet has become the \u201clet them eat cake\u201d of our age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hypocrisy that pays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The real question isn\u2019t whether the hypocrisy exists but why it\u2019s so tolerated. The answer, in part, is that too many people have found ways to profit from it \u2014 through subsidies, grants, and the ever-expanding green grift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to data from Yard<\/a>, celebrities such as Taylor Swift<\/a> and Leonardo DiCaprio emitted between 3,000 and 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide in 2022 from private jet travel alone \u2014 hundreds or even thousands of times the annual emissions of an average citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For perspective: Bangladesh<\/a> emits about 0.71 tons of carbon dioxide per person annually. Ghana<\/a> emits 0.74, Ethiopia<\/a> 0.13, and Kenya<\/a> 0.4. A single year of indulgence by an American climate icon outweighs the lifetime footprint of entire villages in the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate elite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg<\/a>, who condemns \u201cclimate deniers\u201d as morally deficient, has a carbon footprint equivalent to nearly 280 average Americans or more than 2,200 Indians. DiCaprio built his global brand on climate activism \u2014 then took a private jet from Europe to New York to collect an environmental award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the hypocrisy of celebrities is glaring, the behavior of politicians is worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Records show that Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 campaign<\/a> spent over $221,000 on private jets in just one quarter \u2014 even as the Vermont socialist voted for laws that punish fossil fuel use and floated the idea of criminal charges for energy executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Fighting Oligarchy tour,<\/a> meant to challenge wealth and privilege, relied on carbon-intensive travel of its own. The Bronx Democrat later scaled back her private jet use after criticism \u2014 by switching to first-class flights instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The priesthood of carbon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At United Nations climate conferences, the hypocrisy reaches liturgical heights. The gatherings are usually held in luxury destinations like Dubai, Glasgow, or Sharm El Sheikh. Each transcontinental flight emits roughly 2 tons of carbon dioxide per traveler \u2014 the annual output of a citizen in many poorer nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet these same scientists and bureaucrats push for energy restrictions in developing countries, demanding that millions forgo affordable electricity to meet arbitrary \u201cnet-zero\u201d targets. Their supposed moral authority rests not on sacrifice but on self-congratulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reckoning awaits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The hypocrisy would be merely irritating if the consequences weren\u2019t so destructive. The push for \u201cnet-zero emissions\u201d \u2014 a fantasy that defies both physics and economics \u2014 is driving up the cost of gasoline, electricity, and food while shrinking personal freedom. Families pay more and travel less, while the jet-setters congratulate themselves for \u201csaving the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re not leading an energy transition. They\u2019re entrenching a new aristocracy \u2014 one in which elites keep their privileges while the working class bears the pain in the name of the \u201cgreater good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of Donald Trump and other skeptics has interrupted this march toward a green oligarchy, but the climate faithful persist. Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s alliance with the Vatican to \u201cterminate\u201d global warming is only the latest display of moral vanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, voters will see through this 21st-century version of aristocratic corruption. The public may not wield guillotines, but the electoral version will do just fine. Off with their subsidies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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