{"id":712,"date":"2010-09-07T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T10:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2010\/09\/prince-charles-criticized-for-80000-train-ride.html"},"modified":"2010-09-07T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T10:50:58","slug":"prince-charles-criticized-for-80000-train-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2010\/09\/prince-charles-criticized-for-80000-train-ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles criticized for $80,000 train ride."},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Prince Charles took a 5-day tour on the Royal Train throughout Britain. He wanted to raise awareness about sustainability. The price tag for British taxpayers? About $80,000.<\/p>\n

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You can read about Charles’ opulent eco-tour<\/a>, the luxury of the Royal Train, and the “cost-cutting measures” put in place by Charles during a time of economic austerity, recessions, and layoffs.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/b>Predictably, Charles takes the most heat from the environmental organizations he wants to help. From the article:<\/div>\n

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Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, dismissed the trip as “a clear case of double standards.”<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Prince Charles and other super-rich people are not aware of the discrepancy between what they preach and what they do,” he told the <\/i>Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>. “His lifestyle creates a carbon footprint which is 100 times that of any other person in the U.K.”<\/i><\/p>\n

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“If he is really concerned about the environment, he should stop using cars, planes or in this case trains, and practice what he preaches.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I got a good laugh out of Peiser’s zinger, but then some uncomfortable realities started to settle on me.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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You and I are super-rich too.<\/b><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Don’t feel rich? Just go to the Global Rich List<\/b><\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/font> and type in your annual earnings. If you make more than $50,000 per year, you are among the top 1% richest people on the planet. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Go back to Peiser’s criticism of Charles. What if he was talking about Americans and global poverty, instead of Charles and the environment? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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