LILLEY: McKenna left politics but remains an outspoken climate hypocrite
Why look at an activist's actions when you can bask in the warm glow of their Earth-healing words
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Publishing date:Nov 22, 2021 • 17 hours ago • 2 minute read • 146 Comments
Catherine McKenna poses for a photo at Patterson Creek in Ottawa on Aug. 16, 2021.
Catherine McKenna poses for a photo at Patterson Creek in Ottawa on Aug. 13, 2021. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /Postmedia
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Catherine McKenna may have retired from elected politics but she hasn’t retired from lecturing you about climate change.
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Over the weekend, McKenna, formerly Justin Trudeau’s environment minister, was on Twitter imploring people to take climate change seriously.
She also tweeted her excitement at going in-person to see Saturday Night Live in New York City.
Yes, McKenna was in N.Y.C. just after getting back from the COP26 summit on climate change in Glasgow. Despite her noted swimming prowess, I can assure you she didn’t make it to either locale on her own steam.
Such is the life of a climate hypocrite. Glasgow one day, New York the next, Ottawa in between.
Of course, climate hypocrisy is not new, it’s been going on for years and mostly gets ignored by the mainstream media who hang on every word of these activists/hypocrites but ignore their actions. Why look at an activist’s actions when you can bask in the warm glow of their Earth-healing words.
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Al Gore, he of Inconvenient Truth and losing to George W. Bush fame, made billions in the eco green space. His “documentary” was shown to schoolchildren the world over, convincing them that if they didn’t stop mom and dad from driving an SUV, the world would end.
Gore took his fortune earned from green schilling and bought houses – at one point he had a massive mansion in Tennessee and another in California. He not only travelled by private jet but once on the ground, required a motorcade to drive him and his entourage around.
Tom Steyer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who sought the Democratic presidential nomination last election, made a good part of his fortune investing in oil, gas and coal around the world. He then used his money to attack Canada’s oil sands pipeline projects like Keystone XL.
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Nothing like pulling the ladder up when you reach the top.
There are more climate hypocrites than can be counted among the Hollywood elite. Take someone like Leonardo DiCaprio, who has lent his fame and his voice to climate causes while also jetting around the planet in high style.
Back in 2016, DiCaprio was taking in the Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera when he decided to hop on board a private jet to collect an environmental award in New York. He got back on the private jet the next day to head back into Cannes.
For the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, apparently DiCaprio skipped the private jet and flew commercial – first class to be sure, but commercial. That’s in stark contrast to other climate hypocrites like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Prince Charles or McKenna’s old boss Trudeau.
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In fact, there were roughly 500 private jets flown in just for the conference on how to save the planet by stopping the use of fossil fuels.
McKenna knows, though, that it is the words and not the actions of she and her fellow climate hypocrites that really matter — she told us that a few years ago in a truly honest moment.
“We’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it,” McKenna said during a trip to St. John’s in 2019.
Well, it seems she believes her own hype and so do her fellow climate hypocrites.
blilley@postmedia.com
Why look at an activist's actions when you can bask in the warm glow of their Earth-healing words
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