Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behaviour does not conform. In moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one's own expressed moral rules and principles
The gloom and doom that politicians, activists and movie stars predict simply isn't happening
September 26, 2019The “climate change” movement is full of hypocrites:
• Politicians who fly in private jets but tell the rest of us to consider a world without planes.
• Movie stars advocating that we ditch our vehicles when their idea of mass transit is a stretch limo.
• Activists preaching that America has to cripple our economy while posting on their iPhones made in China.
• Candidates telling us we have to give up meat while helping grill 10,500 steaks in Iowa.
There is plenty of hypocrisy to go with all of their hype. But what about the hype?
As Aaron Rodgers would say, “R-E-L-A-X.” The world is not going to end in 12 years.
Remember all of the times former Vice President Al Gore predicted doom and gloom? “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslaw] Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years,” said Mr. Gore on Dec. 14, 2009. But it did not happen. In 2014 and 2015, there was more arctic sea ice than in the previous years. Mr. Gore was as wrong as he is a hypocrite.
Around the time Mr. Gore won an Oscar for the best documentary feature, the Associated Press reported that Mr. Gore’s mansion in Nashville used more than 12 times the average amount of energy for a home in that area. That was his own inconvenient truth.
A decade later and Mr. Gore was still a hypocrite. He told Jake Tapper on CNN, “I live a carbon-free lifestyle, to the maximum extent possible.”
An analysis by the National Center for Public Policy Research at the time found that Mr. Gore’s mansion used more electricity in one month than the average family uses in 34 months. It noted that just the electricity used to heat the pool could power six homes for a year.
All of this after he installed new “green” updates. Ironically, the report says that Mr. Gore’s home used more electricity in 2016 than it did in 2007.
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