Hypocrisy of the Hollywood Environmental Movement

As multi-millionaires who lie and pretend for a living continue their vapid lecturing about the need to save the planet gains momentum, I often wonder if these gas bags ever tire of hearing their own voices blathering about subjects that are above their IQ level.

Harrison Ford pontificates about saving trees and then takes a helicopter to work every day he filmed the latest Indian Jones movies and Oprah is always the loudest and most obnoxious with her preaching and she regularly flies around in a private jet and her decades of obesity contributed to the strain on farming and the planet.

Every botoxed and enhanced starlet makes PSA announcements about 'alternative fuel' without on ounce of information or research otherwise these vacuous morons would know that producing ethanol is actually more environmentally consumptive than oil and destroys arable land reducing farming productivity and creating food shortages.

The most dangerous thing in the world is giving a microphone, a platform and an audience to an intellectual black hole with a cause; celebrities promote 'environmentalism' in the same insufferable way as they whine about Africa. Every ten years of or so, for the past few decades the entertainment business latches onto a cause, in the 1980s it was Africa with their campaign to save starving black children however there is just one problem, all the billions we sent to the continent were siphoned away by corrupt governments and passed onto varying thugs to buy guns and tanks to keep fighting their border wars and their tribal conflicts.

In the late 1990s and now with the offensively simplistic and inaccurate Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, the environment is the Hypocrisy du jour; in the 1990s corporations took advantage of the manufactured frenzy of environmental hysteria by reducing the amount of product they sell consumers and increasing the price and labelling it 'Concentrated' for the health of the environment making us pay more for less. We're still paying those exorbitant prices for products that used to come in larger quantities.

Companies are hard at work figuring out how to best take advantage of the average consumer in this latest wave of environmentalism.

As the mindless sheep get herded in a Zombie like trance into hollow chanting about Kyoto, hybrid cars and other such paper tigers, I find myself asking, yet again, when the human race will wake up.

The Masses Mentality prevents recognition of the Truth and promotes intellectual lethargy that makes societies vulnerable to mass manipulation and hysteria; hypocrisy and deception rules and flourishes best in the midst of the herd.

Over consumption is the plague of our continent and if you want to truly help the planet, here are a few practical things you can do:

1. Lose weight, obesity is putting a strain on the food supply chain and damaging our environment.

2. Conserve energy and paper products; don't leave the lights on or the television on if they're not being used, unplug small appliances like coffee makers and toasters.

3. Recycle; if your community doesn't have a Blue Box program, create one or take your own recyclables to your neighbourhood depots. Stop buying bottled water, get reusable containers and fill those with water.

4. Reduce; cut down on the amount of paper towels and napkins you use, eat less processed food because the excess packaging creates unnecessary waste and unless your transporting manure or hauling cars out of ditches there's no reason to be driving a massive SUV or truck.

This is a world of competing deceptions and the only way to live authentically is to break away from the herd, stop believing the vapid liars and start thinking for yourself.