Wealthy elites who loudly insist that climate change is an urgent crisis arrived at the Super Bowl in the most carbon-intensive way possible, dispatching hundreds of private jets for a single weekend of entertainment.
According to Gateway Pundit, these are the same progressive tastemakers who cheer on petty regulations like banning plastic straws while demanding that ordinary Americans sacrifice their standard of living in the name of the planet. They will virtue-signal in public then just do whatever they want to do, a pattern that has become a hallmark of the modern lefts climate crusade.
Townhall reported on the spectacle under the headline, Elites Did Their Part to Fight Global Warming by Flying Dozens of Private Jets to the Super Bowl. Democrats continue to warn that unless drastic action is taken immediately, half the country will end up underwater, yet their own behavior suggests they do not believe their apocalyptic rhetoric.
Senator Bernie Sanders, who backs the Green New Deal and calls climate change an existential threat to humanity, spent more than half a million dollars on private jets during his Fight Oligarchy tour. Yesterday, following the Super Bowl in San Francisco, hundreds of private jets were seen leaving the area, and observers are willing to be that 90 percent or more of them were owned by people who agree with Bernie Sanders about climate change.
As always, its (D)ifferent when they do it, as the article notes, pointing to the Obamas purchase of a waterfront mansion on Marthas Vineyard and Kamala Harriss recent $8 million Malibu estate with sweeping ocean views. If these politicians and donors truly feared rising seas and catastrophic warming, they would hardly be investing in luxury coastal properties and fleets of private aircraft.
The obvious question remains: What kind of carbon footprint did all of this produce? For many Americans watching this hypocrisy, the answer is clearTheir rules are meant for you, not them.
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