Harry hypocrisy
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Harry hypocrisy
Here he is again, telling us all how vital it is that we cut our own travel and emissions to save the planet, but he's somehow different and can carry on taking private jets just as it suits him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...polo-trip.html
Prince Harry has landed in Santa Barbara after taking his millionaire friend's private jet home just months after lecturing about climate change.
The campaigning royal, 36, boarded the 20-seater £45million plane from a polo match in Aspen, Colorado, to his home in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday.
He took the two-hour flight, which could have emitted as much as ten tonnes of CO2, shortly after he was pictured on horseback at the polo.
I mentioned this sickening hypocrisy before almost 2 years ago in October 2019:
Remind me of the dictionary definition of hypocrisy.
That would be HRH The Duke of Sussex lecturing us on the 'terrifying' effects of climate change, whilst using private jets to whizz him about the planet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...polo-trip.html
Prince Harry has landed in Santa Barbara after taking his millionaire friend's private jet home just months after lecturing about climate change.
The campaigning royal, 36, boarded the 20-seater £45million plane from a polo match in Aspen, Colorado, to his home in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday.
He took the two-hour flight, which could have emitted as much as ten tonnes of CO2, shortly after he was pictured on horseback at the polo.
I mentioned this sickening hypocrisy before almost 2 years ago in October 2019:
Remind me of the dictionary definition of hypocrisy.
Remind me of the dictionary definition of hypocrisy
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Perhaps he's well aware that aviation is a very minor contributor to global CO2 emissions and like the rest of us would wish the green lobby to shut up about it and concentrate on the real problem such as coal fired power stations and surface transport.
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Originally Posted by TURIN
Perhaps he's well aware that aviation is a very minor contributor to global CO2 emissions and like the rest of us would wish the green lobby to shut up about it and concentrate on the real problem such as coal fired power stations and surface transport.
It wasn't a judgement of the merits of air travel by various means, per se. Rather the sickening hypocrisy of being lectured by him about carbon emissions and how WE must be the ones to take action, not him.
Oh! And hoping we'll believe him when he assured us previously:
When asked about his own use of private jets, Harry said: “I came here by commercial. I spend 99 per cent of my life travelling the world by commercial.
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OK, Turin, I'll have to help you.. Do your reading standards and limits allow you to consider articles from The Independent?https://www.independent.co.uk/climat...-b1906737.html
That seems a fairly convincing lecture from him about how we must stop climate change "at the source", which obviously covers carbon footprint from flying. But obviously it doesn't appear to extend to his private use of private jets for his own personal convenience, for which different rules seem to apply.
In his own words "We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source", but its more a sort of 'them but not me' requirement for changes that are needed.
Glad I could help you find it.
In May, the duke warned that mental health and climate change were linked and told Oprah Winfrey: “I know lots of people out there are doing as best they can to try and fix these issues, but that whole sort of analogy of walking into the bathroom with a mop when the bath is over-flooding, rather than just turning the tap off.
“Are we supposed to accept that these problems are just going to grow and grow and grow, and then we’re going to have to adapt to them and build resilience amongst the next generation and the next generation and the next generation?
“Or is there really a moment, a reckoning moment, post-Covid, where we can actually look at each other, look at ourselves and go, ‘We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source, rather than being distracted by the symptom.”
“Are we supposed to accept that these problems are just going to grow and grow and grow, and then we’re going to have to adapt to them and build resilience amongst the next generation and the next generation and the next generation?
“Or is there really a moment, a reckoning moment, post-Covid, where we can actually look at each other, look at ourselves and go, ‘We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source, rather than being distracted by the symptom.”
In his own words "We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source", but its more a sort of 'them but not me' requirement for changes that are needed.
Glad I could help you find it.
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Probably learnt his hypocrisy from his father. Charlie has the choice of a fleet of cars but tells us all to ‘save the planet’ and is laughingly president of the WWF whose mission statement is:
“our belief in the importance of safeguarding the natural world so that future generations can thrive.“
But doesn’t have a problem with blasting wild animals with a shotgun for ‘sport’
https://www.wwf.org.uk/who-we-are/ou...prince-charles
“our belief in the importance of safeguarding the natural world so that future generations can thrive.“
But doesn’t have a problem with blasting wild animals with a shotgun for ‘sport’
https://www.wwf.org.uk/who-we-are/ou...prince-charles
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Could have emitted 10 tonnes of CO2? If he was flying what I think he was flying (G550, the max fuel load is about 20 tonnes, so I doubt it could have emitted 10 tonnes of CO2 in 2 hours.
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Originally Posted by pilotmike
OK, Turin, I'll have to help you.. Do your reading standards and limits allow you to consider articles from The Independent?https://www.independent.co.uk/climat...-b1906737.html
That seems a fairly convincing lecture from him about how we must stop climate change "at the source", which obviously covers carbon footprint from flying. But obviously it doesn't appear to extend to his private use of private jets for his own personal convenience, for which different rules seem to apply.
In his own words "We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source", but its more a sort of 'them but not me' requirement for changes that are needed.
Glad I could help you find it.
That seems a fairly convincing lecture from him about how we must stop climate change "at the source", which obviously covers carbon footprint from flying. But obviously it doesn't appear to extend to his private use of private jets for his own personal convenience, for which different rules seem to apply.
In his own words "We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source", but its more a sort of 'them but not me' requirement for changes that are needed.
Glad I could help you find it.
Please try and debate the point instead of making condescending remarks. Play the ball etc...
So, back to the topic.
There is nothing in the Indy article you have quoted that says he is telling us we must stop flying.
I am happy to support the argument for man made climate change, the evidence seems to be solid. I vote Green whenever I can, but I still drive a car, fly (occasionally), I've got a gas boiler and I'm connected to the national grid. So, yeah I'm a hypocrite too.
What I despise is the constant prods at aviation when we all know it's contribution to global CO2 is miniscule. I suspect Harry is educated enough to know this too.
I am also no fan of the royals, they're an anachronism as far as I'm concerned.
However, my disdain for the royals is nothing compared to my hatred of click bait 'news' articles with an agenda. Especially hypocritical hack rags like the Wail!
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It looks like gob on a stick and her pet husband are about to get a taste of their own medicine.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal...ex-memoir-book
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal...ex-memoir-book
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Originally Posted by redsnail
Could have emitted 10 tonnes of CO2? If he was flying what I think he was flying (G550, the max fuel load is about 20 tonnes, so I doubt it could have emitted 10 tonnes of CO2 in 2 hours.
Just need someone to come along who can say what the burn was actually likely to have been.
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He's changed from being a likeable young man into a complete a*se in my opinion. The polar opposite to Prince William (and the ultra-refined Sophie). He's globally cheapened the royal image and sold himself out to the very media he claimed he was escaping from. 
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Originally Posted by stevef
He's changed from being a likeable young man into a complete a*se in my opinion. The polar opposite to Prince William (and the ultra-refined Sophie). He's globally cheapened the royal image and sold himself out to the very media he claimed he was escaping from.
Harry had earned a lot of respect, but has now chucked it all away. He'll never get it back.
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Originally Posted by TURIN
So, back to the topic.
There is nothing in the Indy article you have quoted that says he is telling us we must stop flying.
There is nothing in the Indy article you have quoted that says he is telling us we must stop flying.
With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference.
we are jeopardizing this beautiful place we call home - for ourselves and for future generations. Let’s save it. Let’s do our part.
By flying private rather than commercial, Harry isn't exactly "doing his part" and wouldn't you agree that it's a tad hypocritical for him to make a choice and action doing something that creates far more emissions per person rather than opting to fly commercial after making the quoted comments?
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Originally Posted by wiggy
Most sources online have that burning a unit mass of fuel produces just over three times that mass of CO2….so I guess if the burn for the two’ish hour sector was around three tonnes then a figure of 10 tonnes of CO2 for the whole sector sounds credible.
Just need someone to come along who can say what the burn was actually likely to have been.
Just need someone to come along who can say what the burn was actually likely to have been.
That seems considerably worse than the same individual using a gas boiler, voting Green, driving a car, or being connected to the grid. So if he led by example and stopped using private jets, that would seem to be a whole lot more effective at achieving the goal he's challenging us all to, "where we can actually look at each other, look at ourselves and go, ‘We need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source", rather than lecturing us about our own individual excesses. And a whole lot more palatable too.
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Originally Posted by redsnail
Fair enough, but I'd happily jump into a G550 versus an Airbus or Boeing.
And yes, he's not the only one guilty of that...
And yes, he's not the only one guilty of that...
I get to turn left on long haul on business, and privately, and I, and my company get charged for the privilege's. I also have access to a Gulfstream which I have used 3 times in 8 years with the business, as it always seems to be somewhere else when I need it
Anyway bottom line I do not lecture about global warming from a position of privilege, (though I agree better use of resources and a smaller pop would help) and he should not either, the optics look really bad, which if he was as media savvy as he makes out I am surprised at. Kind regards
Mr Mac
