Perhaps we should stop listening to celebrities who get rich off playacting.
From Fox News:
Spielberg's plane, a Gulfstream G650, has burned at least $116,159 worth of jet fuel over the course of 16 trips spanning nearly 17,000 miles since June 23, according to flight tracking data from ADS-B Exchange and compiled by the database Celebrity Jets. The figures are likely an underestimate since the database did not calculate fuel and distance metrics of at least three trips made by Spielberg's jet.
Imagine spending more money than the average middle-class family makes in a year or two on jet fuel in 60 days, then turning around and criticizing all the poors who want to afford their daily commute.
However, Spielberg has previously stated that global warming "terrified" him and ripped people who "go blithely through life" without caring about their impact on the environment.
"I'm terrified of [global warming]," Spielberg remarked during a 2018 interview for his film "Ready Player One." "Global warming is a scientific reality. It's not a political trick. It's a true piece of real, measurable, quantifiable science."
He's terrified, but he also has the carbon footprint of a village.
"People have to come around to believing that this is — we are going to have to have a kind of confrontation with destiny unless we do something about it today," Spielberg said.
He added that "everybody has to be held responsible" for their role in climate change.
"You know when you're not mindful of something that could pose a danger to your children and grandchildren?" Spielberg remarked. "Then you just go blithely through life with aerosol cans and doing all sorts of things that are depleting the ozone."
First of all, "global warming" and "ozone"? Is he living in 2005? We've moved on to new terms to scare people. Do better!
Second, I wasn't joking about his carbon footprint:
Overall, Spielberg's jet has emitted at least 179 tons of carbon dioxide over the last two months. By comparison, the average American has an annual carbon footprint of 16 tons and the average global footprint is four tons per person.
If that output holds steady for a year, he will have the same footprint as 269 people per the global average!
And yet I bet this guy would vote in a carbon tax on us all in a second. He'd probably even do a promo for it.
Rules for thee!
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