Bill Maher has a beef with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Beyonce and many other celebrities who preach the need for changes to address the environmental crisis, while using one of the worst contributors to the problem – emissions -flying private jets.
“My name is Bill, and I fly private. And so can every other person who calls themselves an ‘environmentalist,’ who can!” Maher said on Friday’s “Real Time.”
Maher was a bit tart during the New Rules segment, saying that the ol’ “recycle” approach was doing little — if anything — to combat climate change.
“If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then we need to stop going insane in our approach to healing the environment and try something new.” he began. “asking people to be nice, trying to persuade our citizens and other countries to use less and pollute less, sacrifice more. When you tell humans that if you do these eco-friendly things , then we can all live. His response is ‘What’s in it for me?’
Banning gas stoves, drinking through paper straws and recycling isn’t going to work, he said, adding that only 5% of plastic that is put into blue recycle bins actually gets recycled. what would like What does matter, they argued, is reducing our carbon footprint – and this is where the hypocrisy begins. He then ran a long stream of photos of celebrities and politicians who spoke on the topic exiting a private plane.
“His position on climate change is, ‘We must do more to stop putting carbon into the air. Other than me, when I want to go somewhere and then I take a private jet,'” Maher told Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney. ranging from the deboarding of King Charles III and the Dalai Lama to the images of everyone said. “It turns out that there is one thing in this world that is completely impossible to resist. And that’s it. It’s like heroin – if you do it once, you’ll never stop.”
Although he admitted that he does Take a private plane from Los Angeles to go from tapings of your shows to standup gigs across the country, all in one night. But he also admitted that he doesn’t “need” to do standup. On the other hand, in 2001 he had a first-generation Prius that, he said, “looked like a Tylenol gel cap.” He expected everyone to follow if he “takes one for the team”. It did not happen.
“No one followed. In 2021, 80% of new vehicles weren’t electric, not even hybrid. They weren’t even cars. They were SUVs and trucks. That’s what people want,” he said. “In 1973, coal The share of global electricity generated was 38%. You know what it was? 46 years later in 2019 after all the talk and all the effort 37%.
“We need to get serious.”
You can watch Bill Maher’s entire “New Testament” segment from his HBO series “Real Time” at the top.
