How tired are you of being lectured by celebrities to “go green”?

In the kind of in-your-face article that you can really only get from the British press, the Daily Mail publishes an article dubbing these celebrities “hippy-crites.” They single out several celebrities for the environmental hypocrisy with John Travolta getting a special mention for his solo trans-Atlantic travel in his 707. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Madonna also merit special attention, but the list certainly doesn’t end with them either.

Especially in this day of instant information, it still shocks me when celebrities act like we can’t see that as they tell us to take shorter showers, use less toilet paper and make all sorts of other sacrifices in our lives; they’re living in houses many times larger than their family will ever need, jetting around the world on exotic vacations, and generally living lifestyles that make whatever sacrifices we make irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

As far as I’m concerned, they made the money and they’re entitled to whatever lifestyle they can afford. But they need to get off their high horses when it comes to telling me that I’m not doing enough to “save the environment.”

As Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit says, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people telling me it is start acting like it.”

Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Celebrity Politics, John Travolta, Madonna

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