{"id":139394,"date":"2019-08-12T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=139394"},"modified":"2019-08-05T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:04:35","slug":"googles-extravagant-climate-change-camp-mocked-as-party-for-entitled-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/googles-extravagant-climate-change-camp-mocked-as-party-for-entitled-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Extravagant Climate Change Camp Mocked as Party for \u2018Entitled Fools\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Harry Styles. Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

1 Aug 2019 – <\/em>Google\u2019s carbon-spewing climate change conference<\/a> at an Italian resort has been widely slammed as a tone-deaf party for the elite A-listers who jetted there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there anything more hypocritical than a bunch of rich people flying their private jets across the world to sit on yachts and discuss the future of our planet?\u201d said Twitter user @asilia1981,<\/a> reflecting the general reaction online to this week\u2019s Google Camp event in Sicily.<\/p>\n

As the party drew to a close on Thursday, newspaper columns and social media were awash with criticism for the three-day, billionaire-packed event \u2014 which saw more than 200 of the world\u2019s richest and most famous names take private jets to the Italian island and stay on mega yachts while also talking about stopping climate change.<\/p>\n

BBC presenter Andrew Neil repeatedly lampooned the event<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cScores of celebrities and the rich have arrived in Sicily for a Google conference. They came in 114 private jets and a flotilla of super yachts,\u201d Neil wrote to his nearly 1 million Twitter followers. \u201cThe conference is on global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what is conference going to achieve, other than a glamorous [party] for the rich?\u201d<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece in The Times<\/a>, Stuart Heritage sneered: \u201cIf the best name that Google could think of to save the world is Harry Styles<\/a>, we\u2019re all screwed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The billionaire creators of Google each year invite a who\u2019s who of A-listers to the event, which is meant to be a conference where influential people discuss how to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

But photos of celebrities tooling around the island on Maseratis and arriving on diesel-spewing mega yachts worth up to $400 million infuriated everyone watching from home.<\/p>\n

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One guest rolled up in a flashy yellow Maserati. Splash News<\/p><\/div>\n

Celebrities such as Styles, Katy Perry<\/a>, Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>, Orlando Bloom<\/a> and Diane von Furstenberg<\/a> were invited to attend this year \u2014 while Prince Harry<\/a> on Monday gave an impassioned barefoot speech<\/a> about the need to save the planet.<\/p>\n

Local Italian media reported celebrities chartered a whopping 114 private jets to the island, spewing hundreds of tonnes of CO2 into the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all lugging around KeepCups and recycling properly while these entitled fools are taking 114 private jets to a CLIMATE CHANGE conference,\u201d Irish journalist Eleanore Hutch fumed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Republican House candidate Elizabeth Heng also lobbed criticism<\/a> at the secretive event for the world\u2019s elite, saying \u201cHow ironic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor all this talk about saving the earth, 114 private jets chartered to attend this conference. Eliminating carbon footprint, eh?\u201d she wrote Thursday.<\/p>\n

Celebrities have followed a no social media rule but on Wednesday night were photographed taking their Maseratis to the closing night $100,000 banquet dinner held in the grounds of the 2,500 year old Valley of the Temples.<\/p>\n

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