The actor and climate-change protester has been condemned for flying. Is going off grid the only way to avoid charges of hypocrisy?
Hold the front page: Emma Thompson, protester against climate change, scourge of the fossil fuel industry, herself takes aeroplanes. There she was, bold as brass, in a seat, about to burn through rainforests of unknown dimensions with her cross-Atlantic travel, on the cover of the Mail on Sunday.
On some level we must have known this all along, since mostly she is in the UK, sometimes she is in the United States, and we know (although sometimes I wonder) she isn’t magic. But still, doesn’t that put the old tin lid on it? What’s the point of it all, when even people who care about the future and believe in science aren’t perfect?
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