As opposed to everyone else who flew in with their hundreds of assistants.
If they then take care of transforming their country into a emission free one I couldn’t care less when they come to and leave this particular conference held once in a decade. It’s a drop in the ocean.
I somewhere read that 40k people flew to the conference, mostly on private jets. Every single one of them is a hypocrite.
The British are very tolerant of a certain level of hypocrisy from their own upper classes. This is why they can vote for someone like Johnson, and why Corbyn selling himself as a man of principles made little difference to his popularity.
They find it more reassuring in a way because it’s seen as common wisdom that everyone is a bit hypocritical. The ‘born to rule’ types are allowed to be even more hypocritical than the plebs.
What’s he supposed to use? Magic carpet?
The guy is a prick …..
“Hypocrite” is about the most polite word I can think of to describe Johnson.
“Cunt” is the next most polite.
These continue to be ridiculous “gotcha” hit pieces against all the worlds leaders.
Heads of state and heads of government dont travel by bicycle or canoe. To constantly harp on about their method of transport just gives climate change deniers weapons and excuses.
You haven’t figured out yet that all these restrictions are meant for commoners not for elites?
Realistically he’s probably too busy for the 7 hour drive and too famous to take the train. The amount of police and security he would need taking public transport would be ridiculous.
My mate used to run his range rover with vegetable oil so there must be “green” planes on the way soon.
The whole concept of a climate conference that requires people to be somewhere to do, what exactly?, is counterproductive.
Why was this not just an online meeting?
What do you do there that requires everybody to physically present?
It’s not very post-covid compatible.
Well I absolutely must have my holidays abroad every year. My 3 long haul round trip flights are just fine. Plus a few domestic thrown in.
I think this is a nonsense, the security details and logistics in heads of state travelling are a nightmare. You cant just stick them on the sleeper train to Kings Cross.
I mean there are a million things we can criticise Johnson and Von der Leyen for, but this one seems a bit unnecessary.
They all do it, Ursula von der Leyen flew 31 miles on a private jet while constantly going on about climate change, her 18th EU “air taxi” in 2 years. In fairness to them, when you’re a world leader with a packed schedule, or another top politician, you somewhat have to fly, taking incredibly unnecessary flights though is worthy of criticism.
The UK’s electricity in 2020 was half renewables, compared to a single digit % in 2010, and emissions have fallen by a third over the same period. Politicians being hypocrites is never going to go away, but making decent progress, and the pace of that progress increasing, is what matters more.
that’s about the nicest thing you could say about the custardy cunt. criminals the lot of them
You’re right we should’ve demanded they sailed to the conference. Or maybe teleconferenced because somehow a consensus is going to be sorted out through screens when that’s barely possible with streamer debate panels a fraction of the size and with no real consequences to speak of. These imagined hypocrisies are driving me insane and show a fundamental un-serioussness about the issues at hand. Meanwhile the aviation industry is busy spewing hundreds of times the carbon and GHG equivalents every single minute and they’re securing trillions of euro deals and roadmaps that could curb billion tonne emissions a year. There’s real and serious criticisms to be made of these people, but people will jump at these ludicrous “hypocrises” instead.
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As opposed to everyone else who flew in with their hundreds of assistants.
If they then take care of transforming their country into a emission free one I couldn’t care less when they come to and leave this particular conference held once in a decade. It’s a drop in the ocean.
I somewhere read that 40k people flew to the conference, mostly on private jets. Every single one of them is a hypocrite.
Twat
Hypocrite a good word
Sweden’s Green Party leader [flies](https://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/pxz5xb/per_bolund_tar_flyget_ist%C3%A4llet_f%C3%B6r_t%C3%A5get_till/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) all the time. Even to Denmark from Sweden. It goes for most people. Some just try to hide it. Others claim they need to for a greater good.
The British are very tolerant of a certain level of hypocrisy from their own upper classes. This is why they can vote for someone like Johnson, and why Corbyn selling himself as a man of principles made little difference to his popularity.
They find it more reassuring in a way because it’s seen as common wisdom that everyone is a bit hypocritical. The ‘born to rule’ types are allowed to be even more hypocritical than the plebs.
What’s he supposed to use? Magic carpet?
The guy is a prick …..
“Hypocrite” is about the most polite word I can think of to describe Johnson.
“Cunt” is the next most polite.
These continue to be ridiculous “gotcha” hit pieces against all the worlds leaders.
Heads of state and heads of government dont travel by bicycle or canoe. To constantly harp on about their method of transport just gives climate change deniers weapons and excuses.
You haven’t figured out yet that all these restrictions are meant for commoners not for elites?
Realistically he’s probably too busy for the 7 hour drive and too famous to take the train. The amount of police and security he would need taking public transport would be ridiculous.
My mate used to run his range rover with vegetable oil so there must be “green” planes on the way soon.
The whole concept of a climate conference that requires people to be somewhere to do, what exactly?, is counterproductive.
Why was this not just an online meeting?
What do you do there that requires everybody to physically present?
It’s not very post-covid compatible.
Well I absolutely must have my holidays abroad every year. My 3 long haul round trip flights are just fine. Plus a few domestic thrown in.
I think this is a nonsense, the security details and logistics in heads of state travelling are a nightmare. You cant just stick them on the sleeper train to Kings Cross.
I mean there are a million things we can criticise Johnson and Von der Leyen for, but this one seems a bit unnecessary.
They all do it, Ursula von der Leyen flew 31 miles on a private jet while constantly going on about climate change, her 18th EU “air taxi” in 2 years. In fairness to them, when you’re a world leader with a packed schedule, or another top politician, you somewhat have to fly, taking incredibly unnecessary flights though is worthy of criticism.
The UK’s electricity in 2020 was half renewables, compared to a single digit % in 2010, and emissions have fallen by a third over the same period. Politicians being hypocrites is never going to go away, but making decent progress, and the pace of that progress increasing, is what matters more.
that’s about the nicest thing you could say about the custardy cunt. criminals the lot of them
You’re right we should’ve demanded they sailed to the conference. Or maybe teleconferenced because somehow a consensus is going to be sorted out through screens when that’s barely possible with streamer debate panels a fraction of the size and with no real consequences to speak of. These imagined hypocrisies are driving me insane and show a fundamental un-serioussness about the issues at hand. Meanwhile the aviation industry is busy spewing hundreds of times the carbon and GHG equivalents every single minute and they’re securing trillions of euro deals and roadmaps that could curb billion tonne emissions a year. There’s real and serious criticisms to be made of these people, but people will jump at these ludicrous “hypocrises” instead.
Hypocrites gonna hypocrites.