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Originally Posted by jayswin
To me it depends on the person and the message. I don't know enough about Leo to know if he's being a hypocrite or not, but not likely. In most cases it's a little silly to call out environmentalists for not living off the land.
My exception is always David Suzuki, he's an example of someone who truly does preach a minimalist lifestyle and chastises people for not doing everything they can and then turns around and lives a pretty high energy life with multiple houses and tons and tons of air travel.
If you don't arrogantly proclaim that everyone should be like that though, then it isn't really fair to call them out for it.
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The problem is that to fight global warming requires us to increase the cost of energy and travel. That sacrifice will not be felt by Leo and company. So he is asking everyone else in the world to reduce their standard of living in order to fight this problem but won't even take the first step because he can afford to buy offsets.
Its hugely hypocritical. I'm not asking for zero footprint. But fly coach, drive a tesla, buy greener power, do the little things to show you are making an effort to reduce footprint rather than offset the footprint. Its easy to preach about global warming when you don't care about your power bill