CARBON FOOTPRINT BY BBC PRESENTER

[pinfireman]

Environmental activist and BBC presenter Chris Packham has been busy of late, whether it’s causing chaos for farmers, joining disruptive Extinction Rebellion protests, writing articles warning about the “catastrophic impact” of climate change, ranting about “extreme capitalism” or generally lecturing everyone else on how to live their lives. The petition to have him sacked from the BBC has already racked up a whopping 135,000 signatures in just two weeks…

Funnily enough, Chris’s concerns with climate change and capitalism mysteriously vanish when it comes to his own “Travel with Chris Packham” business. It turns out Chris is quite happy to take punters thousands of miles round the world on luxury wildlife tours, pumping out hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide to fly there. Provided they’re paying several thousand pounds each:

This August you’ve got a “a rare opportunity to spend time in the company of Chris whilst surrounded by the spectacular wilderness of Alaska” on a Wildlife Photography Cruise – for a cool £7,195 per person excluding flights.

Over 11,000 miles return from London via Seattle. With 22 passengers on board that’ll be 75 tonnes of CO2 pumped into the fresh Arctic air…

 

In December 2018 you could have spent two weeks exploring Antarctica with Chris on the luxury RCGS Resolute, complete with gym, spa and steam room, all for the modest sum of £8,799 per person excluding flights.

It’s a 16,740-mile round trip to Ushuaia via Buenos Aires. If the full 110 people went that’s a staggering 588 tonnes of CO2 Chris has helped pump out…

This February you could have enjoyed ‘The Ultimate Birdwatching Trip to The Gambia with Chris Packham’ – with three separate tours of up to 17 people each and prices varying from a few hundred pounds to over £1,000.

Banjul’s a mere 5,560-miles return. Only 88 tonnes of CO2 on Chris’s conscience, although he’s been running this tour for over a decade…

 

There’s still time to book onto a “Stunning Photographic Safari in Kenya with Chris” this September, a lucky group of 12 will stay in luxury tents for 8 days for just £7,699 per person.

Just the 8,500 miles return to Nairobi. Chris’s safari group will only be adding 58 tonnes of CO2 this time…

All in all that’s over 800 tonnes of extra carbon dioxide Chris Packham is helping to pump into the atmosphere in just 9 months, while trousering big bucks for himself. Good to see he’s taking the climate “catastrophe” as seriously as he’s busy ordering everyone else to…

SOURCE: GUIDO FAWKES

[motty]

If all that is true, then he is a total hypocrite! Shame on him!

[oldypigeonpopper]

56 minutes ago, pinfireman said:

Environmental activist and BBC presenter Chris Packham has been busy of late, whether it’s causing chaos for farmers, joining disruptive Extinction Rebellion protests, writing articles warning about the “catastrophic impact” of climate change, ranting about “extreme capitalism” or generally lecturing everyone else on how to live their lives. The petition to have him sacked from the BBC has already racked up a whopping 135,000 signatures in just two weeks…

Funnily enough, Chris’s concerns with climate change and capitalism mysteriously vanish when it comes to his own “Travel with Chris Packham” business. It turns out Chris is quite happy to take punters thousands of miles round the world on luxury wildlife tours, pumping out hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide to fly there. Provided they’re paying several thousand pounds each:

This August you’ve got a “a rare opportunity to spend time in the company of Chris whilst surrounded by the spectacular wilderness of Alaska” on a Wildlife Photography Cruise – for a cool £7,195 per person excluding flights.

Over 11,000 miles return from London via Seattle. With 22 passengers on board that’ll be 75 tonnes of CO2 pumped into the fresh Arctic air…

 

In December 2018 you could have spent two weeks exploring Antarctica with Chris on the luxury RCGS Resolute, complete with gym, spa and steam room, all for the modest sum of £8,799 per person excluding flights.

It’s a 16,740-mile round trip to Ushuaia via Buenos Aires. If the full 110 people went that’s a staggering 588 tonnes of CO2 Chris has helped pump out…

This February you could have enjoyed ‘The Ultimate Birdwatching Trip to The Gambia with Chris Packham’ – with three separate tours of up to 17 people each and prices varying from a few hundred pounds to over £1,000.

Banjul’s a mere 5,560-miles return. Only 88 tonnes of CO2 on Chris’s conscience, although he’s been running this tour for over a decade…

 

There’s still time to book onto a “Stunning Photographic Safari in Kenya with Chris” this September, a lucky group of 12 will stay in luxury tents for 8 days for just £7,699 per person.

Just the 8,500 miles return to Nairobi. Chris’s safari group will only be adding 58 tonnes of CO2 this time…

All in all that’s over 800 tonnes of extra carbon dioxide Chris Packham is helping to pump into the atmosphere in just 9 months, while trousering big bucks for himself. Good to see he’s taking the climate “catastrophe” as seriously as he’s busy ordering everyone else to…

SOURCE: GUIDO FAWKES

hello, excellent post, pinfire, perhaps you could forward to GMTV and the BBC,

[turbo33]

Yup, get in quick!!!

https://www.chrispackham.co.uk/news/stunning-photographic-safari-in-kenya-with-chris

This ones not left yet!!

http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/news/alaska-wildlife-photography-cruise

Edited May 8, 2019 by turbo33

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Two faced hypocrite profiting from the demise of what he claims to value and represent!

Edited May 8, 2019 by TIGHTCHOKE

[turbo33]

So spread the word, Facebook, twitter, Instagram......anything you can! He should be exposed for the money grabbing, hypocritical charlatan that he is....

No lies or fabrications, just the truth!

Edited May 8, 2019 by turbo33

[turbo33]

Pinfireman, can you forward it to GMTV? 

[the enigma]

Not sure if anyone has picked up on this. Seem our mate Chris isn't that worried about the environment when there's a few quid to be made. I wonder how many trees he's had to plant to make up for the carbon foot print from this lot.......................

https://www.chrispackham.co.uk/category/live/travel-with-chris-packham

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Shocking!

Edited May 8, 2019 by TIGHTCHOKE

[greylag]

I wonder what he tells his eco brothers and sisters about his little sideline.?

[turbo33]

1 minute ago, greylag said:

I wonder what he tells his eco brothers and sisters about his little sideline.?

"Its all fake news, Its all fake news" 😂

[PSQ]

It's not just Mr Packham that has more faces than a town clock.

During the Extinction Rebellion demos in London, The Guardian's web coverage was sponsored by a banner advertisement for none other than (Drum Roll Please!) :


Guardian Holidays ! https://holidays.theguardian.com/?INTCMP=holidays_uk_web_newheader


- offering a choice of more than 50 different regions for the discerning middle class eco-warrior. After all, even well healed protestors need a holiday, and sitting on Westminster Bridge is jolly hard work! Go on, take a well priced 2 week rest in Bali for only £2339 per person! And rest assured that the profit from your squeaky clean proud Socialist lifestyle will help fund a newspaper hell bent on exposing evil Capitalist scum, and their filthy earth destroying lifestyles! 
- Calculated carbon cost for LHR-Bali return flights: 2.16 Tonnes per passenger. Well done Guardian, hypocrisy with bells on 

[pinfireman]

6 hours ago, turbo33 said:

Pinfireman, can you forward it to GMTV? 

I,m  rubbish with the internet!  That,s why I asked guys on here to forward it. I can post it on Facebook?

1 hour ago, PSQ said:

It's not just Mr Packham that has more faces than a town clock.

During the Extinction Rebellion demos in London, The Guardian's web coverage was sponsored by a banner advertisement for none other than (Drum Roll Please!) :


Guardian Holidays ! https://holidays.theguardian.com/?INTCMP=holidays_uk_web_newheader


- offering a choice of more than 50 different regions for the discerning middle class eco-warrior. After all, even well healed protestors need a holiday, and sitting on Westminster Bridge is jolly hard work! Go on, take a well priced 2 week rest in Bali for only £2339 per person! And rest assured that the profit from your squeaky clean proud Socialist lifestyle will help fund a newspaper hell bent on exposing evil Capitalist scum, and their filthy earth destroying lifestyles! 
- Calculated carbon cost for LHR-Bali return flights: 2.16 Tonnes per passenger. Well done Guardian, hypocrisy with bells on 

That,s the Guardian for you......The Guardian of Hypocrisy!

[Saltings]

we are all in the wrong game working for a living trying to afford a few days shooting when we could be a bull ****ter and make a fortune  

[old man]

Not really any different to his BBC sponsors? Carbon footprints are just for the plebs.

Countrybile seemingly has presenters that must travel the entire UK 5 times a year sometimes just for a cup of tea? Not in Fiat 500's either.

[old'un]

The mans an hypocrite, not just travel but clothing as well, wonder where that’s made?...https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/brands/chris-packham.html?from=home&size=&page=0&sort=bestselling&filter=

He must be raking it in, and he has his management team helping him promote it all….https://www.dfmanagement.tv/

Edited May 9, 2019 by old'un

[Dibble]

32 minutes ago, old'un said:

The mans an hypocrite, not just travel but clothing as well, wonder where that’s made?...https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/brands/chris-packham.html?from=home&size=&page=0&sort=bestselling&filter=

He must be raking it in, and he has his management team helping him promote it all….https://www.dfmanagement.tv/

His clothing line all seem to be 50% off.

According to his agent he has the good fortune to travel widely and has a couple of old cars

[farmer7]

1 hour ago, old'un said:

The mans an hypocrite, not just travel but clothing as well, wonder where that’s made?...https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/brands/chris-packham.html?from=home&size=&page=0&sort=bestselling&filter=

He must be raking it in, and he has his management team helping him promote it all….https://www.dfmanagement.tv/

For an supposed eco warrior like him he should be steering clear of fleece clothing not making money from polluting the oceans. Anything for a buck or two eh.

From an article on the Guardian website:

"In an alarming study released Monday, researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that, on average, synthetic fleece jackets release 1.7 grams of microfibers each wash. It also found that older jackets shed almost twice as many fibers as new jackets. The study was funded by outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia, a certified B Corp that also offers grants for environmental work.

“These microfibers then travel to your local wastewater treatment plant, where up to 40% of them enter rivers, lakes and oceans,” according to findings published on the researchers’ website."

Never mind our plastic wads what about the microplastics in whales and fish and other marine life which he actively sponsers. Hypocrisy of the highest order! 

Edited May 9, 2019 by farmer7

[panoma1]

I'm surprised our representative organisations aren't using such facts about Packham to call him and his hypocritical conduct out?

[farmer7]

4 minutes ago, panoma1 said:

I'm surprised our representative organisations aren't using such facts about Packham to call him and his hypocritical conduct out?

Just Google "Chris Packham microplastics" he bangs on about them enough.

It's been well known for a while that fleece clothing on washing releases plastic fibres which ultimately end up in our rivers and oceans. Perhaps someone could put it on his Twitter or Facebook and request he removes his Chris Packham branded fleece clothing with immediate effect. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-44888185 (interesting little snippet about Packham and the BBC half way down - so much integrity!)

So he's actively involved and paid by a company which RELEASES more microplastics into the environment! Unbelievable!!!!!

[Katzenjammer]

They are all hypocrites.  Emma Thompson flying in from the USA a week or so back to take part in the Extinction protests.  I know anti frackers in North Yorkshire who claim to be true environmentalists but jet off all over, use modern technology by the wagon load, get dropped off at anti fracking protests by a car belching out diesel fuels.

 

[rheth]

you must have a sixth sense pinfireman,the BBC are today running a story on this exact same thing but instead of getting everyones favourite eco warrior and their go to guru on this kind of subject Packham on asking for his thoughts are just asking the general public at the airport.me thinks they have asked him for a response but he has politely declined preferring to keep his head below the parapet someone should ask him his thoughts on the matter by his social media pages, would do it myself but totally useless with technology.

[turbo33]

      Am I the only one pinging this stuff to the media? and I don't mean social media!!!

[Guest]

Hi Turbo

I will happily continue to get this stuff out there. I complained to NE when it was first announced, signed the petition to sack Packham, emailed DEFRA, completed both the BASC and Fields Sports Channel surveys. I have been onto Anti’s blogs and twitter including but not just Avery and Packham calling them out (in a very diplomatic way which I believe is the best approach. Going in both barrels is not constructive) about the lies and then argued with their supporters (as Packham will not respond and Avery just gives glib answers) giving facts rather than abuse and received insults and abuse back from the mindless masses. For every fact you give them, they come back with either an irrelevant comment or personal abuse. Retweeted the Packham hypocrisy of the OXO Biodegradable Plastics and Chris Packham wildlife tours

The problem is, it’s disjointed. We are a small minority to these clueless, brainwashed, tree hugging, vegan antis on twitter and blogs.  I have challenged them about the GMB interview with Packham only for the pack of his followers to round on me and another bloke and spout their hatred and lies.. I don’t know who else to contact or which media outlets to talk to. Happy to keep on contacting various media sites, please let me know who.....however it needs to be structured

Moderators, is there anyway of pulling this all together so as a group we focus on the right targets and I do mean on Twitter, blogs, tv channels, newspapers, Facebook sites etc that will get maximum exposure to get the lies exposed and our voice heard? There are so many lies and negative propaganda being peddled as fact.

My view is we need to:

1 Establish the facts backed up by scientific evidence of what we do and why we do it. Cost to the farming community, the benefits of what we do etc.

2 Discredit the Anti’s claims and back up with evidence. Especially highlight the lies told by Packham and his group to what a hypocrite he and his cronies are

 

[turbo33]

5 minutes ago, Hammeronhammeroff said:

Hi Turbo

I will happily continue to get this stuff out there. I complained to NE when it was first announced, signed the petition to sack Packham, emailed DEFRA, completed both the BASC and Fields Sports Channel surveys. I have been onto Anti’s blogs and twitter including but not just Avery and Packham calling them out (in a very diplomatic way which I believe is the best approach. Going in both barrels is not constructive) about the lies and then argued with their supporters (as Packham will not respond and Avery just gives glib answers) giving facts rather than abuse and received insults and abuse back from the mindless masses. For every fact you give them, they come back with either an irrelevant comment or personal abuse. Retweeted the Packham hypocrisy of the OXO Biodegradable Plastics and Chris Packham wildlife tours

The problem is, it’s disjointed. We are a small minority to these clueless, brainwashed, tree hugging, vegan antis on twitter and blogs.  I have challenged them about the GMB interview with Packham only for the pack of his followers to round on me and another bloke and spout their hatred and lies.. I don’t know who else to contact or which media outlets to talk to. Happy to keep on contacting various media sites, please let me know who.....however it needs to be structured

Moderators, is there anyway of pulling this all together so as a group we focus on the right targets and I do mean on Twitter, blogs, tv channels, newspapers, Facebook sites etc that will get maximum exposure to get the lies exposed and our voice heard? There are so many lies and negative propaganda being peddled as fact.

My view is we need to:

1 Establish the facts backed up by scientific evidence of what we do and why we do it. Cost to the farming community, the benefits of what we do etc.

2 Discredit the Anti’s claims and back up with evidence. Especially highlight the lies told by Packham and his group to what a hypocrite he and his cronies are

 

Thank you, along similar lines to me. There are not enough of us pro active......sad but true. I completely support your post  👍