Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

This reminded me of Pascal Husting, a director of Greenpeace (!) who commuted from Luxembourg to Amsterdam by flying up and down several times a month. It completely soured my opinion of Greenpeace, and I've avoided donating ever since.

I just looked up the aftermath, and it turns he stopped flying his commute in 2014, and switched to the train in response to the criticism. It's interesting that a poorly judged action could do quite a lot of long term reputational damage, caused in part — I suspect — by initially defending that choice.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by jajko » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #4

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/planet/ Yeah right....

This reminded me of Pascal Husting, a director of Greenpeace (!) who commuted from Luxembourg to Amsterdam by flying up and down several times a month. It completely soured my opinion of Greenpeace, and I've avoided donating ever since. I just looked up the aftermath, and it turns he stopped flying his commute in 2014, and switched to the train in response to the criticism. It's interesting that a poorly judged actio…

Thats the thing with reputation - hard to gradually win, trivial to lose for good if you do something completely against the values you try to project as your core ones.

Greenpeace specifically has little sympathies - they often fulfill the definition of eco-terrorists. Its like those idiots spraying beautiful old masters paintings worth tens of millions to 'send strong ecological message so people wake up'. Well, network protocol failed on that sending, you just painted yourself as arrogant aggressive a-holes I want to have absolutely nothing with, harming the cause significantly.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by SunlitCat » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #4

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/planet/ Yeah right....

This reminded me of Pascal Husting, a director of Greenpeace (!) who commuted from Luxembourg to Amsterdam by flying up and down several times a month. It completely soured my opinion of Greenpeace, and I've avoided donating ever since. I just looked up the aftermath, and it turns he stopped flying his commute in 2014, and switched to the train in response to the criticism. It's interesting that a poorly judged actio…

Which makes you wonder, in what kind of world do those people live to not see the irony of being the Greenpeace CEO and traveling several times a month by using a airplane?

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Post by stavros » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:26 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #4

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/planet/ Yeah right....

This reminded me of Pascal Husting, a director of Greenpeace (!) who commuted from Luxembourg to Amsterdam by flying up and down several times a month. It completely soured my opinion of Greenpeace, and I've avoided donating ever since. I just looked up the aftermath, and it turns he stopped flying his commute in 2014, and switched to the train in response to the criticism. It's interesting that a poorly judged actio…

What soured my opinion of Greenpeace is how they kept us burning fossil fuels for decades longer than we should have been, with their anti-nuclear propaganda. I don't know if that was paid for by fossil fuel companies, but it sure really suited them.

Greenpeace did untold damage to the climate by campaigning against nuclear (and, implicitly, for fossil fuels, as there weren't other economically competitive eco-friendly choices back then).

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by bArray » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:30 AM UTC

seydor wrote: post #3

i bet he will ban plastic straws to compensate

Exactly. We're all expected to suffer the inconvenience of soggy straws to offset this guys near daily commute.

And it's not just this. Near all elites have unsustainable lifestyles that we are expected to offset by changing our daily habits.

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Post by alecco » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:33 AM UTC

bArray wrote: post #8

seydor wrote: post #3

i bet he will ban plastic straws to compensate

Exactly. We're all expected to suffer the inconvenience of soggy straws to offset this guys near daily commute. And it's not just this. Near all elites have unsustainable lifestyles that we are expected to offset by changing our daily habits.

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Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by scarab92 » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

bArray wrote: post #8

seydor wrote: post #3

i bet he will ban plastic straws to compensate

Exactly. We're all expected to suffer the inconvenience of soggy straws to offset this guys near daily commute. And it's not just this. Near all elites have unsustainable lifestyles that we are expected to offset by changing our daily habits.

Private jets should be required to burn biofuels or purchase carbon offsets.

If you can afford a private jet, you can easily afford to make it carbon neutral.