which pales in comparison too the 2+ billion cars spewing emissions every single day. This is the exact same argument used to try and discredit Al Gore... "Oh you preach about global warming while you fly around on a private jet!"... ignoring the fact he's changed the minds of a few million people and made a FAR larger dent than what his little private jet ever spewed out even if he flied it around non-stop for 100 years.
when was the last time you got any work done on a commercial plane? The only thing I can do now is crunch myself up and hope to get a few hours of horrible sleep that will drain me for the next 10 hrs. If you're flying around across the country for speaking engagements that's one of the worst ideas possible; a bus would be wiser.
Funkmasterrex, how can you just blow off that hypocrisy? How can you look up to these enviromental "leaders" and be ok with their elite and lavish lifestyle while they tell you that you're the problem?
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"Mr. $60k/year household income, i'm going to need you to peddle a bike to work pulling a cart with your 3 kids in it because the planet needs you! But I'm going to suck up 40x the electricity that you do just to keep my empty 3 houses lit and warm while i fly over your bicycling family in my G6 because 1st class airline seats arent roomy enough to make phone calls or type on my laptop"
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How can that not piss you off?
1) why do you think they leave their houses "on" while they are away?
2) How many minds have you changed? Even if Al Gore changed only 1,000 minds to save 6,000 gallons over their lifetimes he saved 6 MILLION gallons. 10,000 people saving 600 gallons same thing, 100,000 saving 60 gallons or 1 mil saving 6 gallons. I can assure you he's done that.
3) I never said I looked up too them; climate change became abundantly obvious to me while I was taking high school chemistry; my experiments in college just made it astonishingly obvious.
4) If you have a product, sell it.... if you can do good in the world, even more kudos. Do you like any sort of sports? Do you like movies? They fly around on the same G6's but you aren't butthurt about that. Who do you think actually cares more about you... Al Gore or Lebron James?
1) yes they do leave the heat, lights, water heater and anything else the hired help needs "on" while they're away.
2)i'm not suggesting he doesnt help inform 1000s of people of his beliefs. What i'm saying is that he's not practicing what he preaches and he's the biggest kind of hypocrite for doing so.
3)believe what you want.
4) my beef is with the hypocrisy. Lebron James is not spewing global warming warning before he steps on his g6 so more power to him!
FaceTime means they can have a team of people behind the camera giving them cues. There are some things that have to be done in person while the whole world is watching.
Ok.... go find me 20+ seats at once on a commercial airline in advance. They'll charter it... now deal with the security. It's actually cheaper to just fly them all private. Do you really think world leaders should be traveling on commercial airlines with zero security? Do you have ANY idea how fucking insane that is?
That is the stupidest fucking argument I've ever heard. Just because a sports person is famous doesn't make them NEARLY at risk as a politician, much less a world leader. Also, In America, literally every major sports team has their own private jet.... the only time you see anyone on the team travelling commercial is if 1) they want to 2) family emergency and a charter flight or the private plane can't get there or 3) benchwarmer. If you really want to compare Luke Walton's travel security to even the Nicaragua's head of state we are going to have issues. That is fucking stupid.
show me Kobe Bryant in a motorcade en route too the Staples Center and show me him on any commercial jet. Now do the same for the President of Uganda... or Zimbabwe or Taiwan or Israel or Pakistan or Argentina. Point made.
JFK was also a motorcade. A motorcade isn't 100% effective... if someone is dead set on an assassination attempt they'll do it anyway.... But it is a deterant.
Goddammit NO. Sporadic examples don't = a trend and we can't know how many attempts were dissuaded by a motorcade so it's a pointless argument; you brought it up first though. Stop playing Devil's Advocate... I know it's fun but I came here to chill out, not get heated.
so motorcades, and security details aren't necessary, because sporadic examples of assassinations of political officials don't equal a trend.
so they can fly on commercial airlines by themselves. problem solved.
that is literally the opposite of what I said. Assassinations happen; motorcades are a preventive measure. It's impossible to quantify though since we can never prove how many assassinations would happen without them. FFS.
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"Mr. $60k/year household income, i'm going to need you to peddle a bike to work pulling a cart with your 3 kids in it because the planet needs you! But I'm going to suck up 40x the electricity that you do just to keep my empty 3 houses lit and warm while i fly over your bicycling family in my G6 because 1st class airline seats arent roomy enough to make phone calls or type on my laptop"
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How can that not piss you off?
2) How many minds have you changed? Even if Al Gore changed only 1,000 minds to save 6,000 gallons over their lifetimes he saved 6 MILLION gallons. 10,000 people saving 600 gallons same thing, 100,000 saving 60 gallons or 1 mil saving 6 gallons. I can assure you he's done that.
3) I never said I looked up too them; climate change became abundantly obvious to me while I was taking high school chemistry; my experiments in college just made it astonishingly obvious.
4) If you have a product, sell it.... if you can do good in the world, even more kudos. Do you like any sort of sports? Do you like movies? They fly around on the same G6's but you aren't butthurt about that. Who do you think actually cares more about you... Al Gore or Lebron James?
2)i'm not suggesting he doesnt help inform 1000s of people of his beliefs. What i'm saying is that he's not practicing what he preaches and he's the biggest kind of hypocrite for doing so.
3)believe what you want.
4) my beef is with the hypocrisy. Lebron James is not spewing global warming warning before he steps on his g6 so more power to him!
so they can fly on commercial airlines by themselves. problem solved.