Remember… These are the people who are going to sit in a room and lecture the rest of the world on the sacrifices we have to make while making none of their own. Reports have been streaming out of “Hopenhagen” that the airport is gridlocked with private planes (that’s right, folks, they wouldn’t dare sacrifice their Gulfstreams) and now we read this:
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.
“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
Next time some Hollywood douchebag or some disingenuous politician lectures you on climate change and what you need to do to stop it, ask them what they’re giving up. Will they give up their limos? Their private jets? Their gigantic houses that continuously burn electricity as they run from town to town to promote movies and lecture us on the evil of our SUVs.
When one of these folks talks to you about sacrifice, ask yourself a simple question: who really should be sacrificing more: an average citizen or a person who flies city to city in a private jet then takes a limo that gets 8 miles to the gallon to get to TV appearances.
If you’re honest, you know the answer.
