[Beckwith]

Wow!  Is the word "airhead" appropriate here?  I can't think of another.

Despite the celebrities' praise for the primitive life, "Trippin'" shows them flying on multiple airplanes and chartering at least two helicopters and one boat to reach remote locations over the course of the first four episodes.  The series also showed the celebrities being chauffeured to the airport in a full-size Chevy SUV, despite several on-screen, anti-SUV factoids noting how environmentally unfriendly SUVs are.

Paul Dreissen, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power/Black Death observes, "There's something perverse and immoral when multi-millionaire Hollywood celebrities head off on junkets in the jungle - and then preach to us lesser mortals about the joys of the simple life, and how we should protect the Earth, conserve energy, prevent global warming, and help the poorest people on our planet continue 'enjoying' their poverty, malnutrition and premature death.  Life in these developing countries is still nasty, brutish and short.  There is a reason our parents and grandparents worked so hard to create modern homes and hospitals and technologies, so they could leave behind the unsafe water, dung fires, pollution, rotted teeth, infant mortality and life expectancies half or ours."

[jimtorr]

When Cameron and Drew give up their lavish lifestyles, then perhaps they might make good earth-friendly examples. Until then, they're just two more celebrity poseurs.

[bitt]

'"To reduce global warming, "Trippin'" offset all of the energy used to make this show by supporting renewable energy products."
According to the environmental publication Grist Magazine, the MTV series "purchased carbon credits to offset pollution," which was generated as part of producing the series.'

? are carbon credits? I have some charcoal remnants in the bottom of my grill...do they count? Now I can leave the lights on so I'll feel safe? I enjoyed Cameron's exhortations prior to the elections (voting for Bush was voting for rape...)

[ikka]

Is Cameron aware that plastic surgery is not available in the jungle? Might change her attitude ...

[dfwgator]

"It's kinda gotten out of hand, how much convenience we think we need,"

This coming from the same network that gives us "MTV Cribs."

[dfwgator]

Cartman on South Park said it best:


(Driving through San Jose, Costa Rica)
Eric Cartman: Oh my God, it smells like ass out here.
Miss Stevens: Alright, that does it. Eric Cartman, you respect other cultures this instant.
Eric Cartman: I wasn't saying anything about their culture, I was just saying their city smells like ass.
Miss Stevens: You may think that making fun of third-world countries is funny but let me...
Eric Cartman: I don't think it's funny. This place is overcrowded, smelly and poor. That's not funny, that sucks.

[mmercier]

like all nitwit elitists who live behind large walls with armed guards, she sees those who must burn twigs and decimate the nature she professes to love as a higher order of humanity than those mere fools who provided her with the financial means to publicly urinate on them.

those who do not want to listen to the drug induced ravings of these elitist neurotics should take the time to drop a turd into their websites and specifically be sure that not a cent of your evil earned money finds its way into their pockets.

[KJC1]

One of the celebrity guests, Drew Barrymore, apparently enthralled by the lack of a modern sanitary facilities, gleefully bragged, "I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome."

Was it awesome enough that she'll forego her own bathroom facilities and start pooing in her back yard? LOL.

[L.N. Smithee]

Reading about the slinky blonde Diaz's romantic view of recycling as a panacea for a poisoned earth reminds me of a former guilty pleasure: my dalliances (via video) with another slinky blonde.

Here in San Francisco, there is a long-running cable access TV show called Queen Bee TV that I never missed once I stumbled upon it about two years ago. It features an attractive long-legged mid-to-late twenties woman (think Goldie Hawn in Duchess and Dirtwater Fox or Lorna Patterson from Airplane) who wears a crown and a form-fitting bumblebee costume with a plunging neckline and fishnet stockings. The format of the program is pretty simple: she sets up her video camera, sits on her bed surrounded by her extensive doll collection (Barbies, baby dolls, stuffed animals, etc), stares into the lens, and ruminates about what's been going on in her life and in the news. Sometimes she does what is called "Bathtub Theater," in which she performs what amounts to topically-based puppet shows in her bathtub using her dolls and her cat. I am not making this up.

She never reveals her name, but apparently is (or was) a part-time college student, and while she admits her ditziness, she isn't unintelligent. I was hooked on her when she countered, point by point, a viewer who wrote her a nasty e-mail regarding a statement she made about a welfare queen that was in the news ( I forget the details). Amid the stereotypical blondeness, there was a bit of common sense rattling around in her cranium!

Not having a blue-eyed blonde of my own to look at my life, I would tape the show weekly, treating her twenty-eight minute long chat sessions as one might a blind dinner date with a girl who's fun to be around and really cute, but not your type intellectually. You'll have dinner and part as friends, but you'd never dream of spending the rest of your life with her.

Anyway, the reason why I was reminded of her is because she is another recycling zealot. Another occasional feature of her show is Recycling Faux Pas, in which "Queen Bee goes down to the trash area in her apartment building and rifles through the regular trash looking for recyclable items that could have conveniently been deposited in the nearby recycleable receptacles. See seeks to show how some of her fellow tenants have made mistakes in their attempts at proper waste disposal." One time, with a smile on her face, she talked about one particular tenant who foolishly left his discarded phone bills in his unrecycled plastics. She stared in the camera joking about killing him in his sleep now that she knew his identity. The page linked above includes a dead link to a St. Cloud (Minnesota) State University about "[learning] to live like Native Americans."

If I was able to endure all this nonsense just to dig her hotness, what turned me off to her? When she, opening her show, said something about how she got an abortion so she wouldn't have to stop taking her antidepressants. After rewinding the tape to see if that's what she actually said, I stopped watching, and haven't been tempted since.

That's what swallowing leftist dogma whole does to you: It makes you feel good about saving "the environment" while discounting the life of human beings.