Climate Hypocrites and the Media that Love Them
Table of Contents:
- Climate Hypocrites and the Media that Love Them
- Introduction
- Leonardo DiCaprio: Drowning in a Sea of Hypocrisy
- James Cameron: Writer, Director, Producer, Eco-terrorism Supporter
- John Travolta: This is Your Captain Speaking, Asking You to Ignore My Hypocrisy
- Al Gore: Making Hundreds of Millions off of Greenwashing
- Arianna Huffington: A Paycheck Signed by Actual Activists
- Matt Damon: Oil Money for Eco-causes
- Ian Somerhalder: Tweeting About Climate Change from 30,000 feet
- Woody Harrelson: Actor Thinks the Holocaust is Funny, but Making Paper from Trees is 'Barbaric.'
- Julia Roberts: The Voice of 'Mother Nature'
- Gwyneth Paltrow: Out of Touch Obama Fangirl
- Mark Ruffalo: Hulk Smash Anyone Who Criticizes Climate Change Alarmist Hypocrites
- Cameron Diaz: Envying the Third World from the Comforts of Beverly Hills
- Conclusion
- Methodology
- Recommendations for Journalists
Ian Somerhalder: Tweeting about Climate Change from 30,000 Feet
Net worth: $4 Million
Foundation/Nonprofit: Ian Somerhalder Foundation
Eco-awards: 2012 International Green Awards
Famous for: Actor (Lost, Vampire Diaries)
Notable Quote: “Beautiful morning in LA-sun, breeze but can't open my window b/c of the exhaust coming off of street-time to end conventional gas engine.PLS”
Even among celebrities, there are few people more blatantly out of touch than Ian Somerhalder. The Lost and Vampire Diaries actor has tweeted from an airplane about the evils of taxi pollution. He’s also wished that people would stop driving cars – not because it would hurt the environment, but because it made him not want to open the windows in his apartment.
He whined about the pollution caused by “giant gas-guzzling things we hurl ourselves through the air in” – before going on a globetrotting trip in one of those airplanes that offended him so much. Despite his penchant for air travel, Somerhalder informed his fan base that he would no longer be accepting paper fan mail, because it was “a DRAIN on our earth’s resources” (capitalization his).
Fortunately for us, Somerhalder loves Twitter (all typos are his). “Packing-back to Europe soon.Its crazy those giant gas-guzzling things we hurl ourselves through the air in arent powered by more bio fuels,” Somerhalder tweeted, as he prepared to board one of the same planes he condemned. During the month leading up to that tweet, Somerhalder had flown to China and Amsterdam, as well as to “NY,Spain,Canada,Russia Hungary, Italy,France,Brussels, England(for movie)then back to NY then ATL.”
Just after getting back from his globe trotting trip, Somerhalder complained “Beautiful morning in LA-sun, breeze but can't open my window b/c of the exhaust coming off of street-time to end conventional gas engine.PLS”.
Somerhalder is also a prime example of a celebrity who puts up a facade of doing charitable work. The Ian Somerhalder Foundation, with its website full of pictures of the actor posing with animals, took in $522,384 in 2013, but only gave out $550 in donations. That’s close to 1/1000th of the money it received for environmental causes.
But this didn’t stop Variety from praising Somerhalder, claiming that “His budding Ian Somerhalder Foundation is laser-focused on environmental issues.” Somerhalder also starred along with James Cameron in Years of Living Dangerously, during which he claimed that “within 50 years, half of all species on Earth will be extinct.”
Somerhalder was also named the “Most Responsible Celebrity” by the International Green Awards. In the description on the Green Awards website, with his foundation listed as proof Somerhalder was “known as a prolific environmental campaigner.”
