{"id":139385,"date":"2019-08-05T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=139385"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:53:34","slug":"elites-flock-to-google-summit-in-114-private-jets-mega-yachts-to-talk-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/elites-flock-to-google-summit-in-114-private-jets-mega-yachts-to-talk-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Elites’ Flock to Google Summit in 114 Private Jets, Mega Yachts to Talk Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 Jul 2019 – The world\u2019s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth \u2014 but they sure are punishing her in the process.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry and Barack Obama.
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The billionaire creators of Google have invited a who\u2019s who of A-list names\u2014 including former President Barack Obama<\/a>, Prince Harry<\/a>, Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> and Katy Perry<\/a> \u2014 to the Sicilian seaside for a mega-party they\u2019ve dubbed Google Camp.<\/p>\n

The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change \u2014 though it\u2019s unknown how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year,\u201d a source told The Post.<\/p>\n

Their three-day summer camp will cost the tech giant some $20 million, sources said.<\/p>\n

Many of the guests, including Obama and DiCaprio \u2014 who has his own climate change foundation \u2014 have described global warming as the biggest threat to future generations.<\/p>\n

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Verdura Resort – Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

But according to Italian press reports<\/a>, the attendees were expected to show up in 114 private jets, and 40 had arrived by Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Post crunched the numbers and found that 114 first class seats from Los Angeles to Palermo, Italy, where Camp guests landed, would spew an estimated 784,000 kilograms of CO2 into the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle Camp is meant to be a place where influential people get together to discuss how to make the world better,\u201d one regular attendee told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will likely be discussions about online privacy, politics, human rights, and of course, the environment, which makes it highly ironic that this event requires 114 private jets to happen,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Attendees pay for their own travel to Sicily, but then Google foots the bill for everything at the opulent Verdura Resort, which reportedly features two golf courses and where rooms start at $903 a night.<\/p>\n

Sources tell The Post that guests were personally invited by Google founders Larry Page<\/a> and Sergey Brin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Katy Perry arrives for Google Camp in Sicily.
Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n

Stars there also include Harry Styles<\/a>, Orlando Bloom<\/a>, Diane von Furstenberg<\/a> and Barry Diller<\/a>, who arrived on their enormous $200 million yacht Eos, which has both sails and two 2,300-horsepower diesel engines.<\/p>\n

Billionaire Dreamworks founder David Geffen<\/a>, meanwhile, gave Perry and Bloom a ride on his $400 million yacht, Rising Sun.<\/p>\n

Also on hand for the environmental gabfest was the megayacht Andromeda, a 351-foot behemoth owned by a New Zealand billionaire and which features its own helipad.<\/p>\n

Many of the attendees were seen in photos tooling around the island in high-speed sports vehicles, including Perry, who has made videos for UNICEF about climate change and was seen in a Maserati SUV that gets about 15 mpg city.<\/p>\n

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Designer Diane Von Furstenberg at Google Camp. Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n

Stella McCartney, Bradley Cooper, Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra plus Gayle King will also be on hand. Even Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> of Google\u2019s rival, Facebook, was invited, according to local reports.<\/p>\n

Guests dine among ancient temples and are treated to performances by the likes of Sting<\/a>, Elton John<\/a> and Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin<\/a>, before retiring to their suites at the Verdura Resort.<\/p>\n

The tech company goes to extreme measures to keep its camp a secret \u2014 all hotel staff and security have to sign non-disclosure agreements, a source told the Daily Mail in 2018.<\/p>\n

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