As world leaders and their hangers-on gather for the “climate summit,” in Copenhagen, Denmark, London’s Daily Telegraph reveals what the assembled worthies are themselves doing about global warming. The woman who heads one limo company says her rentals have gone from the normal 12 per day to more than 200.
The owner “reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42.” Limos are coming from Sweden and Germany to meet demand.
As well, the airport will handle “up to 140 extra private jets ... so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports — or to Sweden — to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.”
Along with “15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles, among others, all chowing down on “scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.”
But it’s all for the good of the Earth, you understand.