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A number of newspapers and magazines report today detailing Sting and his wife Trudi Styler’s less than stellar environmental record, even while they speak out over the dangers of climate change and CO2 emissions. This past week, the UK Daily Mail received some refreshing honesty on the issue from Trudi during a interview at the Earls Court Real Food Festival. From the article, “Miss Styler tried to shift a little of the blame on to her musician husband, who is 56. ‘When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says ‘I’m a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint’, she said. She then asked: ‘Are we being hypocritical?’ before seeming to answer the question herself. ‘He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge. I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It’s a difficult one.’” Environmental experts recently rated Sting’s band, The Police, one of the dirtiest in the world as a result of the crazy amounts of pollution generated by the group on their latest world tour. Styler herself has also been criticized for her copious private jet and helicopter flights — as well as ridiculous antics like having her personal chef travel 100 miles to simply prepare a bowl of pasta.
Sting and Trudi certainly do a good amount for certain charities and initiatives, but when it comes to talking sustainability, they really should jump down from the soapbox.
Sources: DailyMail, The Journal
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Posted on Apr 29, 08 | 2:17 pm
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It's about time someone pointed this out. It is being hypocritical.
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Epilogue on Apr 29, 08 | 3:51 pm
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Yeah, that's actually kind of hypocritical... I think they are absolutely the last one I would think as environnemental figure who could give lesson to anyone...
Having said that... It doesn't imply they cannot fight for environnemental causes. And since they have money and power, they should. So as long as they aren't giving lesson and talking in terms of "raising awareness", they should keep going with their cause.
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Brandnew on Apr 29, 08 | 11:32 pm
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Yeah its hypocritical but i guess they would still use the same amount of carbon whether they have an environmental charity or not so its a better that they do something!
Although they could live a far more energy effecient lifestyle and set the trend for others!
Why does Sting need a crew of 750 people?? Surely thats not true!!
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that's it. The gossip with their chef traveling for miles for cooking was brought up in that tribunal hearing as one Ms. Martin made.
about The Police leaving a big Carbon footprint - quite likely... but it will be the last tour of them anyway and Sting solo tours aren't that bad eco-wise. Also people tend to forget that Sting & Edin Karamosov's tour was very eco-friendly. Small entourage and small stage (that eqipment they used fitted into a caravan) and normal cars (the car they used in Berlin was a black Diesel Mercedes - no stretched limo or anything fancy)..So more lute tours or acoustic sets please, Sting. In playing like that Sting is at his best anyway!
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