H – Hypocrisy

noun – the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case

While hypocrites can always appeal to elitism (it’s hard at the top, different for me) and human weakness (yes I know I’m doing the wrong thing but my point still stands), you really have to stretch your imagination and bend your concepts of reality to put trust in such people, and the ideals they stand for, once their deception has been uncloaked.

And when hypocrisy is a common theme among those espousing a certain view or approach, it really should make you wonder about the foundations of their arguments, no?…

Also, see our “let them eat cake” section for those happy to allow some leniency to the elites below while happily questioning the right of others to live such lifestyles, you know, for the good of the planet…

Some of the best climate and energy related examples of hypocrisy below. No further comments required…

• Obama Buys $11m Beachside Property– No Fear of Sea Level Rise? 7,000-square-foot home a few feet above sea level
• Obama’s Climate Worries About Africans Getting Cars, Air Conditioners, and Modern Houses
• Xi Jinping, Chinese president, wins 2020 ‘climate hypocrite’ award for green talk, coal action
• Al Gore’s Climate Change Hypocrisy Is As Big As His Energy-Sucking Mansion
• Hypocritical Climate Activist Leonardo DiCaprio Throws a Private Yacht Party While Preaching to the Masses to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
• “Why Don’t You Act Like You Believe It?”: Competing Visions of Climate Hypocrisy
• Behind carbon neutrality lies rich countries’ hypocrisy