Writing in Britain's Daily Mail, former Page Sixer Tom Sykes details the fuel-guzzling ways of boldfaces who profess great concern for the earth, air and oceans.
Madonna's carbon footprint for 2006 was estimated at 1,018 tons - more than 100 times that of the average British resident. For New Year's Eve, Madge, her family and five pals flew to India on a private jet. Her rep didn't get back to us. (ONLY five. geesh. A lot. Carbon emissions. We can sit in idle and pump out carbon all day for a month and not be even close to what she did on that ONE trip. She takes twenty a year at least.)
Barbra Streisand had a contract specifying she get "120 bath-sized towels" for her tour of England and Ireland last year. She also used a 1,353-foot semi-tractor trailer, four vans, 14 buses and a limo, and flew a private jet from Manchester to London. Her rep, Ken Sunshine, dismissed the towels requirement as "bull," but said he didn't know about the transportation. (She is a hypocrite no matter which way you toss her)
Leonardo DiCaprio flew his family from Paris to Rome on a private jet in 2006. He declined a journalist's challenge that he never fly private again. Sunshine, who also reps Leo, insisted: "No star at his level flies commercial planes more than he does."
John Travolta is a licensed pilot who owns five private planes, including a Boeing 707. He once reportedly was the only one aboard his 707 when he landed to refuel in Ireland. His rep didn't respond. (Hard to respond when you use more fossil fuel than a normal family in ten years, for one trip. Here is a suggestion to you hypocrites - get John to fly you around. Plan your trips together. That way, he isn't wasting his flights flying alone - he does get lonely, and you as celebrities who do not wish to be near the public can fly alone - the only emissions issues will be limited to the planes John flys anyway.)
Sting and Trudie Styler, a couple with seven homes, have a carbon footprint estimated at 30 times that of the average UK resident. Their reps didn't get back to us, but Styler told the Mail that, since Sting "has a 750-person crew to bring around the world, it is a difficult challenge." (And that is just for that one trip - imagine how many trips or tours he takes PLUS his trips with the family - and he is using more fossil fuel and causing more carbon emissions than the entire SUV fleet in Delaware)
Chris (Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow) Martin of Coldplay loves to jet home while on tour, which means he uses about 250 times as much carbon as the average person. His rep didn't get back to us. (That is JUST ONE ... and he does it often, PLUS he goes on vacation with the little family and uses even more. If the above celebrities would disappear for a year, the environment would be substantially better off)
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