What a hypocrite

I'm referring to John Travolta, who had the audacity to preach about global warming and the need for everyone to do their part to reduce their carbon footprint when he owns 5 personal airplanes and uses them as freely as I use my car to go to work every day:

But although he readily admitted: "I fly jets", he failed to mention he actually owns five, along with his own private runway.

Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average Briton's tally.

And as if this weren't arrogant and hypocritical enough:

Travolta made his comments this week at the British premiere of his movie, Wild Hogs.

He spoke of the importance of helping the environment by using "alternative methods of fuel" – after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson.

This is incredible!! Are you kidding me?! What the hell is wrong with you, man?? How can you talk about alternative energy and helping the environment when you arrive at the event's doorstep on a gas guzzler?

And naturally, he's blaming Hollywood for his choices:

Travolta, a Scientologist, claimed the solution to global warming could be found in outer space and blamed his hefty flying mileage on the nature of the movie business.

But his appointment as a "serving ambassador" for the Australian airline Qantas doesn't seem to have much to do with the movies. Nor does a recent, two-month round-the-world flying trip.
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"I use them as a business tool though, as others do. I think it's part of this industry – otherwise I couldn't be here doing this and I wouldn't be here now."

Ludicrous and pathetically delusional, if my opinion. Take for instance Leonardo DiCaprio, arguably a bigger star than Travolta and himself an environmentalist. He drives a Prius, a hybrid that is, so that he doesn't look like a hypocrite when he preaches about saving the planet.

Take Al Gore, the start of An Inconvenient Truth. He purchases clean energy, which is more expensive than regular one, and has found other ways to offset his and his family's carbon footprint. He can then freely go out and tell us that we should all do our part.

I'm sure Travolta wasn't threatened with the loss of his compensation for the movie unless he drove a Harley down the red carpet to the premiere. I know he's wealthy enough that he doesn't need to sponsor Australian airline Qantas and fly their planes around the world for advertising. I'm sure he can find alternative and cheaper, albeit still satisfactory means of transportation than flying himself all over the world just because he can.

All these were his choices.

Saying you love nature while you soil it 100 times more than the average person, detracts from your words. At least don't tell us to do our part to save the planet when you're clearly not doing yours!