This sums up the staggering hypocrisy and double standards as well.as a lack of understanding of the real world :
I shall no doubt have a heated discussion with my eco-warrior son over this at lunch today, as he was somewhere in the area yesterday and sent this photo. He is currently at FL370 somewhere over Angola on his way to CPT in a 4 engined 21 year old 747 which must have a higher CO2 footprint than more modern aircraft.Hypocrisy of globe-trotting ringleader
A privately educated eco-activist who flounced out of a TV interview yesterday has enjoyed a string of foreign holidays despite criticising air travel.
Robin Boardman-Pattison, 21, appeared on Sky News to defend the Extinction Rebellion protests that have brought misery to hundreds of thousands in London.
Robin Boardman-Pattison got up from his seat and walked out of the Sky News studio during an interview with Adam Boulton
But he stormed off the set after presenter Adam Boulton suggested he and his fellow middle-class demonstrators were patronising and self-indulgent.
During the interview Boardman-Pattison, who has twice been charged with criminal damage over previous protests, said his group would like to see aircraft 'only used in emergencies'.
( Photo of Boardman-Pattison at the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy)
But it later emerged that his Instagram page features a series of photos of him enjoying skiing holidays abroad. He has also posted pictures online of himself in Italy three years ago visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
It is unclear how he travelled on his foreign breaks. But a carbon footprint calculator reveals that if Boardman-Pattison took a 1,800-mile return trip to Pisa by air he would have generated 0.20 tons in CO2 emissions.
A similar journey in an average-sized car would result in 0.46 tons. If he had taken either a bus or train from London to Pisa his CO2 footprint would have been 0.04 tons.
Last year Boardman-Pattison sprayed the words 'Make Ecocide Law' over the entrance windows of Bristol magistrates' court in an Extinction Rebellion demonstration.
He and a fellow protester were arrested after reportedly taking 'too long' to wash off the paint under police orders. They pleaded not guilty but were eventually convicted and fined a total of £1,804.
Boardman-Pattison has spent much of his life living in Beckenham, Kent, where his parents Roger and Mary own a £1million four-bedroom home.
He previously attended the £17,500-a-year boys-only Trinity School in Croydon, south London, the Guido Fawkes political website reported.
On Sky News yesterday, he said the Extinction Rebellion protests were to 'wake the public up'.
But Mr Boulton told the activist: 'I feel very patronised by you. You're like the incompetent middle-class, self-indulgent people and you want to tell us how to live our lives.'
Boardman-Pattison then got up from his seat and walked out of the studio.
'I'm a vegan and they were pretty bad about getting me some vegan food,' he said. 'If you are going to arrest 300 activists you have got to think about getting some vegan food ready. There was no soy milk either so I had to have my tea black.'
