Current Events > Celebrities attend Google summit on climate change in private jets, mega yachts

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https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/google-summit-celebrities-climate-change

Google Camp is hosting the likes of former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry in Sicily, Italy, to discuss climate change, but it may come at a steep cost to Mother Earth.

Everything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year, a source told the New York Post.

Sources told the outlet that the three-day event will cost the tech giant $20 million.

Many of the guests, including Obama and DiCaprio who has his own climate change foundation have described global warming as the biggest threat to future generations.

Italian press reports allege that the Google Campers would show up in 114 private jets, and 40 had arrived by Sunday.
If the guests took 114 flights from Los Angeles to Palermo, the private jets would reportedly release 100,000 kilograms of CO2.

Google Camp is meant to be a place where influential people get together to discuss how to make the world better, a source told the Post. There will likely be discussions about online privacy, politics, human rights, and of course, the environment, which makes it highly ironic that this event requires 114 private jets to happen.

Attendees, who according to a source were personally invited by Google founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page, reportedly will foot the bill for their travel costs to Sicily's Verdura Resort, but Google will pay the rest of their expenses. Rooms reportedly start at $903 a night in the luxurious vacation spot.
Other stars in attendance will be Perry's fiancee Orlando Bloom, singer Harry Styles, Bradley Cooper, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra, Gayle King, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, designer Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller. Furstenberg and Diller reportedly arrived via their $200 million yacht Eos; Dreamworks founder David Geffen is said to have given Perry and Bloom a lift to the event on his $400 million yacht, Rising Sun.Perry, who's starred in UNICEF videos about combating climate change, was reportedly spotted in a Maserati SUV that gets only an estimated 15 miles per gallon.

Shameful
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Hahaha

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You realize that hearing this from you in particular dampens your point.
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So clearly we should never do anything at all about climate change and also climate change isn't real.

Is that what you wanted to hear TC
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Remember when there was an article about how much electricity Al Gore uses, and CEmen said "so what, he's rich"
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sounds like an illuminati gathering
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I already have 0 faith in all of humanity and 90% sure it will be our great filter
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Doom_Art posted...

So clearly we should never do anything at all about climate change and also climate change isn't real.

Is that what you wanted to hear TC

I mean, there is a middle ground here. If leaders want their message to be heard and people to take climate change seriously, they should lead by better examples.
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So I suppose I shouldn't vote for policies and politicians that focus on combating climate change, and I shouldn't make changes in my own life because some rich idiots use jets and yachts?

Is that the point you're trying to make here lol
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Celebrities and world leaders at a $20 million private party sitting around saying:

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Doom_Art posted...

So I suppose I shouldn't vote for policies and politicians that focus on combating climate change, and I shouldn't make changes in my own life because some rich idiots use jets and yachts?

Is that the point you're trying to make here lol

No. Again, the point is practice what you preach or people won't take you seriously. It's a pretty simple concept.
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So we shouldn't take climate change seriously because some rich assholes use private jets and yachts?
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voldothegr8 posted...

Google Camp is meant to be a place where influential people get together

they're influential for a reason so it evens out
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They don't even buy their own bullshit.
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RoadsterUFO posted...

The changes you make are honestly pretty worthless when China and India can pollute the living hell out of every thing. It was an absolute insult of intelligence to everyone that China was included in the Paris Climate Accord with the laughable standards that they were being held to in that agreement.

yep so we may as well just lie down and die i suppose then lol
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If we manage to reverse global warming, I doubt it will be because we cut down on emissions. Either scientists will hack the planet, or we're fucked. Still no excuse to keep polluting, just saiyan,
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Doom_Art posted...

So we shouldn't take climate change seriously because some rich assholes use private jets and yachts?

Not should or shouldn't, but won't. People won't take it seriously with displays like this.
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Doom_Art posted...

So clearly we should never do anything at all about climate change and also climate change isn't real.

Is that what you wanted to hear TC

Because it's impossible to talk and discuss events without having to fly or sail heavy polluters? It's impossible to talk to people remotely across the world in an instant right?
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These conservative criticisms of liberal elites are halfway to being useful. Yes, it's correct that the majority of the planet's emissions come from the wealthy.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything about climate change. It means that action on climate change will also have to tackle the rich people who don't own fossil fuel companies.
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voldothegr8 posted...

People won't take it seriously with displays like this.

I think that's pretty laughable. People will or won't take it seriously entirely independently of this, which most people won't notice or care about except for people with an ax to grind and a point they already want to make

jmo
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I understand Obama and Harry (a former president and a prince), however Perry and DiCaprio shouldn't even be attending such an event as it comes off as nothing but virtue signaling.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Not should or shouldn't, but won't. People won't take it seriously with displays like this.

That's quite stupid tbh

Letting other people influence you to that degree.
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Can you take people seriously who don't practice what they preach?

In a certain sense, yes. For example, if a doctor who smokes herself tells me that smoking is bad for your health, I will still believe her.

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Antifar posted...

These conservative criticisms of liberal elites are halfway to being useful. Yes, it's correct that the majority of the planet's emissions come from the wealthy.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything about climate change. It means that action on climate change will also have to tackle the rich people who don't own fossil fuel companies.

Even if all the 'common' people on earth cut emissions by 90%, that wouldn't even make a dent in the amount of emissions produced by industry/elite.

We need to press for industrial changes instead of forcing the average person to suffer.
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Doom_Art posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

Not should or shouldn't, but won't. People won't take it seriously with displays like this.

That's quite stupid tbh

Letting other people influence you to that degree.

The whole point of getting celebrities involved is to influence people, but when they show up in gas guzzlers they're influencing the wrong way.
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Ok?

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atleast that Swedish Greta girl is going in a sailboat, apparently
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Wow why is everyone so upset at TC

lmao at the deflection itt
Who gives a fuck if you don't like TC.
Does your hate boner, no matter how justified you feel for having one, really warrant attacking the sentiment "practice what you preach"?

It's hilarious when a disliked user brings up a valid issue/point. The mental gymnastics that ensue are great.

They should have arrived on bicycles and canoes.

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lol these attendees don't give a shit about global warming. stop the charades.
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Shablagoo posted...

Can you take people seriously who don't practice what they preach?

In a certain sense, yes. For example, if a doctor who smokes herself tells me that smoking is bad for your health, I will still believe her.

I prefer the moral of this one story about a dad asking his son's doctor to tell his son to stop eating sweets, and the doctor asks the dad to bring his son back in two weeks. The dad does so, and the doctor tells the boy to stop eating sweets. The boy agrees to do so. The dad asks the doctor why he needed 2 weeks to just tell the boy to stop eating sweets, and the doctor replied that he could not tell the boy in good conscience to stop eating sweets when he himself was still hooked on eating them.
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tamagucci posted...

Wow why is everyone so upset at TC

In the face of ugly truths they have to deflect somehow
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It's hypocritical to an extent, but ultimately if you want rich people to foot the bill for climate change you have to treat them nicely, I would imagine.
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Paragon21XX posted...

I prefer the moral of this one story about a dad asking his son's doctor to tell his son to stop eating sweets, and the doctor asks the dad to bring his son back in two weeks. The dad does so, and the doctor tells the boy to stop eating sweets. The boy agrees to do so. The dad asks the doctor why he needed 2 weeks to just tell the boy to stop eating sweets, and the doctor replied that he could not tell the boy in good conscience to stop eating sweets when he himself was still hooked on eating them.

Haha I like that! Still, in this case the doctor is only making me aware of the dangers of smoking rather than insisting I stop.

It would be far better if these icons lived up to their own standards, but it doesnt defeat their general message of protecting the environment.

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If you spend $1,000,000 to decide how you'll spend $1,000,000,0000 on saving the Earth, yeah, that's whatever
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Shablagoo posted...

It would be far better if these icons lived up to their own standards, but it doesnt defeat their general message of protecting the environment.

It doesn't defeat the general message but it does defeat the message coming from the individual, and certainly doesn't do the general message any favors.
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Maybe theyre electric jets!
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HerpToTheDerp posted...

It's hilarious when a disliked user brings up a valid issue/point. The mental gymnastics that ensue are great.

It's not a valid issue or point. What does someone traveling in a private jet have to do with the threat of climate change being real? It doesn't change the fact that it's happening. At best you get to say someone is a hypocrite. Sweet. Feel better? Will hypocrisy make climate change worse, or are we just more concerned about sticking it to some libz?
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voldothegr8 posted...

It doesn't defeat the general message but it does defeat the message coming from the individual, and certainly doesn't do the general message any favors.

Do you honestly care what Leonardo DiCaprio thinks about climate change?
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are they supposed to walk? lol
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Jaded_Dragon posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

It doesn't defeat the general message but it does defeat the message coming from the individual, and certainly doesn't do the general message any favors.

Do you honestly care what Leonardo DiCaprio thinks about climate change?

I do, cause I saw him do th icewater challenge with toilet water
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Jaded_Dragon posted...

HerpToTheDerp posted...

It's hilarious when a disliked user brings up a valid issue/point. The mental gymnastics that ensue are great.

It's not a valid issue or point. What does someone traveling in a private jet have to do with the threat of climate change being real? It doesn't change the fact that it's happening. At best you get to say someone is a hypocrite. Sweet. Feel better? Will hypocrisy make climate change worse, or are we just more concerned about sticking it to some libz?

Why does it bother you when people call out hypocrisy
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people who weren't going to believe them weren't going to believe them regardless of this; in fact, this is only a story because it feeds into a narrative that people already have about climate change

another example of this kind of reasoning is when a billionaire advocates for higher taxes, but then tries to make their personal tax burden as low as possible. people will use the same reasoning as TC is to say that these billionaires are disingenuous and if they really cared about it, they would just give more money to the government.

in both cases it's only people who already distrust combating climate change or higher taxes on the wealthy that will think it matters or somehow undercuts the message. and in both cases it misunderstands the issue at hand, and how systemic changes are necessary rather than individual sacrifice.
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E32005 posted...

are they supposed to walk? lol

How about fly on a plane or ride on a boat already heading that direction? Oh but that would require them to mingle with peasants, and avoiding that is far more important than conserving fossil fuels.
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