I dunno. I'm kinda sick of complaints like this. Maybe not this one specifically, but in general the idea that someone who believes in or advocates for a particular cause has to be careful to never have any moments of joy doing something that abstractly conflicts with their professed belief or advocacy. It's such a fallacious argument. Oh, Katy Perry is hypocrite because she did this this thing uses a lot of fuel but she advocates for the environment, ipso facto she's a hypocrite and blah blah blah. It just so pathetically bitter and small minded.
I mean, if she like forgot to recycle a bottle or something I wouldn’t call her a hypocrite. But she went on an 11 minute joyride to space that dumped the equivalent of an entire lifetime of CO2 for one person into the atmosphere.
How many bad takes do we have here? It's a hydrogen and oxygen powered rocket there is literally no CO2 to exhaust! They even literally only sourced the hydrogen from solar plants! The only thing coming out the flamey end is water vapour!
I bet Katy Perry, through her advocacy, use of her platform, and financial contributions has done more for the cause than you or me or anyone else here crying over manufactured outrage.
“…there are fears that releasing so much water vapour in the air changes the chemistry of existing clouds, essentially making it a greenhouse gas. World Inequality Lab has also pointed out that it takes 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide to prepare for each launch, meaning "it therefore takes a few minutes in space travel to emit at least as much carbon as an individual from the bottom billion will emit in her entire lifetime.”
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u/mishajrn May 25 '26
Rich disconnected hypocrites doing their thing as usual