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标 题: We Must Not Even Think of Accusing Leonardo DiCaprio of Hypocrisy
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 2 00:50:06 2014, 美东)
We Must Not Even Think of Accusing Leonardo DiCaprio of Hypocrisy
via Breitbart Feed
Friday’s crash of the Virgin Galactic space-plane in California was, of
course, a tragedy: One test-pilot was killed, and another seriously injured.
But there is, at least, a silver lining: There’s no need to worry about
another possible issue concerning Richard Branson’s spaceflight venture—
namely, that all those internal-combustion-powered flights would contribute
to the dread danger of climate change.
Indeed, to the untrained eye and the untutored mind, it might seem that so
much fuel-burning jet- and rocket-powered air-activity would inevitably add
to the carbon load of the atmosphere.
But there’s no need to worry about that.
How do we know? Because as The New York Times report on the crash tells us,
among those on the waiting list to fly on the Virgin aircraft is the actor
Leonardo DiCaprio. And DiCaprio, of course, is a duly designated United
Nations Messenger of Peace, with a specific mandate to focus on climate
change.
As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said of the actor in making the
appointment last year, “Mr. DiCaprio is a credible voice in the
environmental movement, and has a considerable platform to amplify its
message. I am pleased he has chosen to add his voice to UN efforts to raise
awareness of the urgency and benefits of acting now to combat climate change
.”
Given DiCaprio’s estimable position, we can be certain that he would do
nothing to jeopardize the environment by flying in carbon dioxide-producing
machines.
In fact, because he is so special, DiCaprio can be a UN Messenger of Peace
and be an early flyer on Richard Branson’s rocket project—if the $250,000-
a-person flight program ever takes off. So there is no hypocrisy here.
Thus our political conscience requires us to conclude that accusations that
DiCaprio is having it both ways—publicly soaking up liberal adulation for
climate-change activism while privately seeking to go space-joyriding—are
obviously the mean-spirited insinuations of right-wingers, clinging, no
doubt, to their God and their guns |
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