Ecological campaigners are claiming that David Beckham holds “the largest carbon footprint in human history.”
Major claim, yes, but David’s high fallutin’ lifestyle is seriously damaging the earth. Between the surprise birthday shopping expeditions abroad, the Euro 2008 qualifiers, and his role as head groupie for the Spice Girls’ tour, Mr. B is not making friends with the environmentalists:
- he has 15 cars, none of which are fuel efficient. (He owns a Lamborghini Gallardo, a custom Cadillac Escalade, and Bentley Arnage to name a few);
- he flew over 250,000 miles in 2007 - that’s a one way trip to the far side of the moon;
- as a result, his CO2 output in one year was 163 tons. The average person in Britain? 9.4 tons.
Let’s just put this out there: the day we see David Beckham taking public transportation with lowly regulars and/or peasants, will be the day we start watching darts and eating Scotch eggs.
Granted, we used to fall asleep standing up as soon as any discussion of ‘going green’ was brought to our attention, No way would we be caught dead in hemp shoes or an electric car (driven, obviously, by a chauffeur with hemp shoes), but now? We’re fully on the don’t screw up the environment tip. We’ve actually turned the setting down on our GHDs to “sun level”, rather than “earth’s core” temperature. So David, if we can make sacrifices for the good of the earth, so can you, mate.
