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Originally Posted by Ark2
Some good quotes from the link you posted:
Seems like Neil has an agenda and isn't particularly interested in the whole story if it contradicts his crusade. I think that's the biggest issue with celebrities taking up causes like these. There's no ethical standard that they have to adhere to. His heart might be in the right place, but when you wield the kind of influence that he does, I just think that it's incredibly irresponsible to be this blatantly biased.
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And that's the problem, they basically take the words of environmental groups that haven't been there, or tend to exaggerate to increase their fund raising and parrot them. Then Neil throws in some Harper is evil and likes to eat kittens and then talks about treaty rights with the Natives.
He's catering to his fan base, nothing more.
Like I said what frustrates me more then anything else beyond the hyprocisy of the celeb set that do nothing on their own side to live up to their words but see fit to lecture everything else. Is that Neil lives in California, where more then half of America's dirtiest cities from a pollution standpoint reside, and who are building pipelines like crazy.
Or maybe he should look at the major carbon emitters like China, or like America, or like Russia and go after them. But we never hear that China is starting up something like a new coal fired plant every week.
Or again maybe he should be crying about the countries like China and India and Pakistan and even some places in Russia where they're killing their own people because of the water and air quality and the fact that the governments don't care all that much about their environmental record.
He and other celebs go after the oilsands like this because it makes them money and makes them popular.
Nobody here is saying that Canada doesn't need to improve its environmental record, or keep pushing for meaningful reforms on the Oilsands.
But for Neil Young to go there with his crew and "be surprised by Green initiatives" that are happening up there and then go out and do the Atomic Bomb comment really makes me question the mans integrity.