Hypocrite eco-warriors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Harry Styles arrive at Google camp in private jets, superyachts and Maseratis
TREE-HUGGING celebrities arrived by private jet and superyachts to attend a Google Camp focused on climate change.
The hypocritical VIP guests were then ferried to the three-day event at an exclusive Italian resort in gas-guzzling Maseratis.
The tech giant’s seventh annual jolly in Sicily was attended by vocal green campaigners Leonardo DiCaprio, Stella McCartney and Katy Perry. Coldplay singer
Chris Martin, a supporter of The CarbonNeutral Company, performed at night amid brightly lit ruins.
Other big-name guests included Harry Styles, Orlando Bloom, Bradley Cooper, Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Even former US president Barack Obama, who signed the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, was said to have been invited.
An insider said: “I’ve never seen such a pampered bunch. Everything is laid on for them. It’s so extravagant.
“They just don’t seem to be aware that they’re the ones burning huge amounts of fossil fuels. They turn up with unnecessary entourages in helicopters or fast cars and then preach about saving the world.”
DiCaprio narrated a documentary about the warming planet titled Before The Flood in 2016, while Perry made videos for Unicef about climate change and Stella McCartney is big on sustainability in fashion.
Yet 114 private jets were expected at the event at the Verdura Resort and 40 had arrived by Sunday, according to the Italian press. Even if guests had taken scheduled flights from Los Angeles to the Mediterranean island they will have added tonnes of Co2 to the atmosphere.
Among the polluting superyachts anchored close to the bash were Diane Von Furstenberg’s EOS, German pharmaceutical boss Udo J. Vetter’s Aquarius and New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart’s Ulysses.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been known to arrive on his boat, Infinity, in previous years.
The schedule is a closely guarded secret with guests having to sign non-disclosure agreements, but a source told the : “Everything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year.”
Google, which owns YouTube and provides the world’s most popular search engine, claims it “strives to build sustainability into everything” it does.
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But the Verdura Resort is bigger than Monaco and houses a 203-room five-star hotel, three golf courses, six tennis courts, football pitch, volleyball, four pools and a water sports club.
For the entertainment, Google rents out the impressive Valley of the Temples ruins in nearby Agrigento where guests enjoy top cuisine and the performance of a famous singer.
They are going to need to plant a lot of trees to “offset” this climate conference.
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