But i can show you who does greta you have 13 million followers on instagram which is great but kylie jenner has 279 million which is more i mean seriously who is the real influencer in that generation the model citizen or the model the young woman who refuses to fly are
The one who refuses to fly commercial you see what i’m saying greta gets where she’s going on a sailboat powered by the wind kylie takes a private jet powered by exxon and she’s 21 times more popular now this is not a screed against comfort or capitalism i’m fond of both
And i give kylie credit she’s built a massive business empire without ever releasing a sex tape [Applause] and like her dad she’s a self-made woman [Applause] but kylie embodies and embraces a lifestyle that is pretty much the opposite of carbon neutral and the younger generations love it
Last week kylie posted a tour of her shoe closet which houses well over a thousand pairs she also has entire rooms of things she only sworn once i don’t think greta would approve of that in polls young people always claim to be more concerned about climate change than
Other generations but they don’t act like it they throw around buzz words like sustainable and shame people who forget to bring a cloth bag to trader joe’s but one of their favorite youtubers is mr beast who’s famous for stunts like i gave my 40 millionth subscriber 40 cars jason derulo celebrated his 22nd
Millionth follower by eating 22 hamburgers the cognitive dissonance between planet-destroying conspicuous consumption and planet-saving rhetoric is breathtaking you say you love greta and her message but everything else you love is a climate disaster far from rejecting consumerism young people are so obsessed with labels that venerable fashion houses like valenciaga
Have pivoted from selling couture dresses to rich women to selling baseball hats to teenagers and where does it 20 something get the money to pay 400 for a hat that borrows the bernie sanders logo because [Applause] because you’re like a socialist and stuff from mommy and daddy of course those
Huge who ruined the planet oh and also maybe by trading bitcoin the mining of which is worse for the environment than actual mining cryptocurrency uses more energy than netflix apple facebook microsoft and google combined and more than some entire nations and yet young people
Could not love it more if it came with a side of avocado toast 94 of crypto buyers are either millennials or gen z which makes it ring a little hollow when you’re out there chanting for us to put the planet ahead of prophets and what do crypto fans say about this they say
Well yes it uses too much energy now but in the future oh yeah the future that’s right same thing my generation said let them handle it in the future i’ll get mine now like bitcoin the smartphone is a huge contributor to carbon emissions because the cloud isn’t an actual cloud of
Course it’s a vast network of servers using energy and all that liking and following and subscribing requires lots of fossil fuels and yet you would need the jaws of life to pry a phone out of the hands of anyone under 30. [Applause] what would it take to convince gen z and
Millennials to give up their phones a pollster once asked 43 said it would take five million dollars to give up their phone one in ten said they’d sacrifice a finger for it that deserves a high four look i know it would be fire to be able to both live like kylie and
Also save the planet but you can’t do both last year when australia was devastated by wildfires greta reminded us that we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events kylie 2 was moved by the disaster and tweeted about how the loss of animal life breaks
Her heart then she quickly follow up with a post of her new 1500 louis vuitton mink slippers it’s always so sad when fire kills potential slippers [Applause] kids you’re going to have to make a choice here do you want to be progressive or excessive team drastic or team plastic
When kylie’s lifestyle becomes uncool and unpopular and you stop loving bitcoin and stop thinking that stuffing your face is harmless i’ll take you seriously until then shut the up about how older generations ruined the planet we we get it boomers dropped the ball on the environment we did we dropped it like it
Was hot and for that i can only say whoops yeah you’re right we dropped it but have you picked it up i wish your generation was better than mine i really do but the sad truth is we’re completely the same lots of talk and at the end of the day
Hopelessly seduced and addicted to pigging out on convenience luxury and consumption so that’s it you can either be the fake tits and private jet generation or the one that saves the planet but you can’t be both because fake tits are not biodegradable you
