Celebrities

Celebrities can be really irritating and I'm not just talking about the narcissism, indulgence, and insulting our intelligence with half the things they hawk at us.

No, what I am rambling about today is 'green celebrities'. Now, I know there are some stars that are generally committed to an ecologically balanced future but for the most part it's really hard to take them seriously when they're never seen wearing an outfit twice.

Who am I going to pick on today? Jennifer Aniston. I recently read that she has gone ‘green’ by cutting down her water consumption by brushing her teeth in the shower…. Ok that doesn’t really work. Isn’t brushing your teeth in the shower like leaving a huge faucet running while you brush?

Also, the woman is a spokesperson for bottled water. Bottled water is not only an enormously ridiculously concept (we pay up to a 300% markup on something WE GET FOR FREE), but the whole industry creates large amounts of waste, consumes oil (measure a quarter of the water in the bottle and that’s the amount of oil it takes to produce it), and even recycling the containers puts fumes in the air.

So it seems you’re a friend of the environment if you promote an extremely un-environmental product, jet around the world, and eat meat as long as you try and multi-task in your shower in your mansion.

Therefore if celebrities are as influential as they seem to think they are then they partially to blame for the incredibly low standards we seem to hold ourselves to.