Brother Sting has let us all down.

mkpdavies · 28-04-2008, 07:11 PM

'It's true - we're hypocrites over our huge carbon footprint,' confesses Sting's wife | the Daily Mail

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Their claim to be eco-warriors has been met with cynicism in recent times.

Sting, for instance, notched up an incredible number of air miles with his band's world tour.
And it was revealed that his wife Trudie Styler travels between their seven homes in private jets or their fleet of cars, as well as importing farm produce hundreds of miles.
Now the celebrity couple have been forced to admit that their record is less than clean. Miss Styler, 53, was challenged on the issue when extolling the benefits of organic and locally-grown food.

"When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says 'I'm a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint",' she said.
She then asked: "Are we being hypocritical?' before seeming to answer the question herself.
"He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge. "I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It's a difficult one."

I think we need to have a word with brother Sting. He needs to learn to keep his mouth shut!

g hall · 29-04-2008, 03:03 PM

Should have learnt before he recorded his cr@p "music"

Poptech · 29-04-2008, 03:50 PM

I love how impossibly self defeating the "Green" movement is on rich celebrities. I wish more of them would endorse it so we can keep ripping them to shreds...

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Baron von Lotsov · 30-04-2008, 03:56 PM

At least he was being honest. Could you imagine Gore saying that as he floats around in his heated swimming pool?

Well Sting did at least come out with a few good songs, so I'd spend some carbon on that. My woman went to see them play in Malta last year and said they were excellent. He does not come across as particularly dumb so lets hope the penny drops for him. Nothing would please me more than for him to confess that the whole carbon business is a racket. You never know, he may do. Someone please fill him in on it.

29-04-2008, 03:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: The flatlands of East Anglia but my heart is in the green rolling hills of Devon Posts: 4,432	Should have learnt before he recorded his cr@p "music" __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." I don't ignore posters just any post made which meets my ID-TEN-T criteria

30-04-2008, 03:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
Baron von Lotsov Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 718	At least he was being honest. Could you imagine Gore saying that as he floats around in his heated swimming pool? Well Sting did at least come out with a few good songs, so I'd spend some carbon on that. My woman went to see them play in Malta last year and said they were excellent. He does not come across as particularly dumb so lets hope the penny drops for him. Nothing would please me more than for him to confess that the whole carbon business is a racket. You never know, he may do. Someone please fill him in on it. __________________ "A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have..."

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