Environmental hypocrites in Hollywood

Yesterday's New York Times ran a piece about all the "environmentally" themed movies about to be trotted out by Hollywood this spring and beyond.

I'll not abet any of their producers by naming them or their product, but cannot resist asking this question:

• Aren't those houses built right on the ocean at Malibu Beach an environmental "insult?"
• And what about the ones built in canyons that are always catching fire, and those built on unstable hillsides and smack atop fault lines?

It has been only recently that some of us plebeians have had the audacity to mention little inconsistencies between the global-warming crowd's message and their "lifestyles," such as Albert Gore, Jr's $30,000 annual utility bill, and his wasteful limousine and private jet travel.

Yet even as I am writing this, Los Angeles' KNBC-TV has broadcast another story of wildfire in the Anaheim hills. Where are these stewards-of-the-Earth when it comes to cleaning up their OWN excesses?

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