Say what you will about Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (on second thought, hold your fire), but one thing you can’t fault her for is flying hundreds of thousands of miles all over the world, dumping millions of pounds of carbon into the air, to tell people to be kind to the earth.
That would be incredibly hypocritical —and we have John Kerry for that.
US Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry, who is currently in London to warn the world about the existential dangers posed by global warming, is basically a punchline at this point as he perfectly encapsulates the far-left’s “rules for thee, not for me” policy positions.
John Kerry’s carbon footprint is roughly 300 times that of the average American. The Washington Free Beacon recently reviewed 75 of Kerry’s official travel announcements from March 2021 to July 2022 —just over a year of “Kerrying” around the globe.
“Kerry has flown roughly 180,100 miles—the equivalent of traveling around the world more than seven times—to discuss climate change with various world leaders,” WFB reports. “Planes on average produce 53.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile traveled, according to carbon emissions modeling website BlueSkyModel, meaning Kerry’s flights have produced 9.54 million pounds, or 4,772 tons, of carbon.”
Over the course of just 6 days last May, Kerry traveled to Rome, London, and Berlin before heading back to the states —roughly 10,100 miles and 538,000 pounds of carbon produced.
Fox News recently reported that John Kerry’s family private jet has emitted more than 300 metric tons of carbon since Biden took office.
“The problem with folks like John Kerry and the climate hypocrites who run the green movement is that they want to use the coercive power of government,” Executive Director of Power The Future Daniel Turner told Fox News Digital in an interview. “They want to use it internationally with groups like the UN, etc. They want to use the power of government to deny the rest of us the ability to use those fossil fuels that they take for granted.”
Kerry says people won’t have to “give up a quality of life” (read: private jets) to defeat climate change because carbon reductions “are going to come from technologies that we don’t have yet.” Great Thunberg responded:, “Great news! I spoke to Harry Potter and he said he will team up with Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes & The Avengers and get started right away!”
Despite Kerry insisting that certain technologies aren’t in place to help carbon reduction, he also says America needs to “transition to electric vehicles about 20 times faster than we are now.”
The average sticker price for an electric vehicle last year was $66,000 —no problem for John Kerry, whose net worth is upwards of a quarter billion dollars. Why, with that kind of money he never has to drive again —he could fly all over the world!
And, so he does.
