How much greenhouse gas does Cate Blanchett use per year and how much are increased costs due to a carbon tax going to hurt her compared to your average pensioner?

Discuss....

Her carbon footprint is pretty impressive. When she leads by example, and cuts down on all that air travel, I may be a bit more interested in what she has to say. There's no other way to look at it other than sheer hypocracy.

For further insight see 'Team America' and the group they sendup, the Film Actors Guild or F.A.G. which takes the mickey out of celebrities using their fame as a launchpad to express their broader opinions - which as it turns out, not a lot of people are particularly interested in.

I think as soon as any issue is promoted by a celbrity, there should be instant rejection of the idea by any sane thinking person. You see, if they need a celebrity to sell it, there must be something evil or fundamentally wrong with the idea.

I was all for a carbon tax, but now, since Cate is involved, I would do anything to stop it. Any seconders?

I cant see how being typecast in period dramas and generally being mawkishly wholesome and eternally pretentious qualifies one to speak about the greatest moral challenge of our time.

There's an excellent article by Anthony Sharwood on this topic:

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shoot-the-messengers-and-send-them-to-bonnie-doon/

Check it out.

I am all with you there, Houllie. Like Lexi, I bet she's never
even bothered to install solar hot water heating, but oh no, now
we are gonna save the planet. Hypocrites.

Very shallow thread, full of red herrings.

"I was all for a carbon tax, but now, since Cate is involved, I would do anything to stop it."

Very shallow indeed.

I can't see how being typecast as anything or anybody has got anything to do with it.

You make out as if only the down-trodden and lowly of this world can stand up to anything worth standing up for.

Surely you can do better.

There is only one reason for a carbon tax, it's the price we pay to buy little Julia the job as PM.

I agree you would have to be very stupid to have your opinion dictated by someone who spends most of their life in la la land, the home of most celebrities.

I wonder if these adds are the price these lobbying organisations are paying to avoid loosing their tax exempt status, as Greenpeace recently has in New Zealand?

It just shows that to become rich & famous you just need lucky genes & you can cruise through life in utter ignorance which I believe is bliss.