Deskdiary - “... Cumberbatch is no different. I wonder how many flights he took to film Dr Strange?”
Quite.
The entertainment industry is one of the most wasteful, CO2 spewing industries on Earth. The movie makers fly their entourages to every corner of the planet. Hundreds of people hop on and off planes to make a couple of hours worth of footage. They use vast quantities of electricity without a care in the world. I have seen with my own eyes, dozens of floodlights positioned outside my local church's windows for days on end just so the director can get the light inside the church that he wants for a scene. Wasteful doesn't even begin to describe it. Dozens of HGVs, hundreds of people. For what? A 30 second scene in a TV drama?
And yet the people who work in this industry – from the so-called “A” list actors to the tea boy – are the ones who seem to think that their chosen profession is somehow exempt from criticism and that they themselves, whilst having vast 'carbon footprints'*, are somehow virtuous and good while the rest of us plebs need to stop taking foreign holidays and go back to subsistence living and are evil polluters.
The bottom line is that if Extinction Rebellion didn't have double standards then it wouldn't have any at all.
* Carbon Footprint = original sin. By the way, no one has a 'carbon' footprint. You may have a Carbon Dioxide 'footprint'. But if you have a 'Carbon' footprint, then I would recommend that you take a good long look at your diet.