Wednesday, June 01, 2011

It's all hot air from the jet-setting eco brigade


Those that are coming down hard on Cate Blanchett should look inside and see what they have done for the environment lately. Hopefully she is above all these 'heroes' and keeps it up.

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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The Sunday Telegraph's "Carbon Cate" headline should have come as no surprise. Sure, it was a clever journalistic line in response to news that Cate Blanchett was heading the Australian Conservation Foundation's TV advertising campaign in support of a carbon tax. But Don Henry, the foundation's executive director, should have seen it - or something like it - coming.

On ABC radio on Sunday, Henry seemed unprepared for the criticism, which demonstrates just how out of touch some inner-city environmentalists are with predominant views in the suburbs and regions. Blanchett is an admirable and successful Australian. Even so, many Australians who struggle to pay their power bills each quarter do not want to be lectured to by a multimillionaire film star.

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