Extinction Rebellion and the hypocrisy of the new eco-elite

Do you ever get the feeling that the elites are just taking the mick? That behind our backs they’re high-fiving each other and saying, ‘I can’t believe we’re still getting away with this?’ I do. Especially on the climate-change issue. The gall of an establishment that lives it up in carbon-fuelled luxury while telling the rest of us to stop being so eco-destructive really has become too much to take.

Eco-hypocrisy abounds. Take John Kerry. He is Joe Biden’s climate-change envoy, which basically means his job is to wag his finger at the entire world for being so dirty and polluting. And yet there he was a few weeks ago landing in Martha’s Vineyard in his private jet for Barack Obama’s lavish 60th birthday party. It’s the 16th flight Kerry’s private jet has taken this year.

Most of us haven’t been anywhere near an airplane for the best part of 18 months. Yet we’re expected to take lectures from a man who jumps in his private jet whenever there’s a birthday bash or virtue-signalling shindig to attend? Private jets are 14 times more polluting per passenger than commercial flights.