David Beckham May Have The Largest Carbon Footprint In Human History
Traveled farther than from the Earth to Moon in 2007
Filed under: not green — Michael d'Estries @ 9:19 pm
January 23rd 2008
Last year about this time, the Beckhams were named the most environmentally unfriendly couple. Now, David alone has a new honor to add to his resume:
Largest Carbon Footprint In Human History!
For those playing along at home, you should imagine your best ‘God’ voice when saying that. Trust me.
According to Carbon Trust, Beckham’s extensive air travel for matches and endorsement obligations, along with his fleet of cars and homes have all added up to record numbers. From the article,
“The former England captain logged over 250,000 miles last year as he flew back and forth between the U.S. and Europe for England’s European Championship qualifiers, while also participating in a Galaxy tour of Oceania in the latter part of the year. Beckham and his wife Victoria also collected over 50,000 frequent flyer miles for advertising obligations around the globe. At home, Beckham owns a fleet of 15 cars, including a Porsche, a Hummer and a Lincoln Navigator.”
This all adds up to about 163 tons of carbon dioxide yearly. To put that in perspective, the average Englishman contributes about 9.4 tons. The average American generates about 7.8 tons. Said a Carbon Trust spokesperson, “With all his money he should be using it at least to reduce his own footprint. He has more freedom of choice when it comes to methods of traveling. He could also choose greener cars.”
Or how about just f–king sit still?! Damn — we should tie this guy down lilliputian-style and do the world a favor. Let’s hope we’re not writing about any new records this time next year. Who knew talented feet could have such massive footprints?
via Fox Sports
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he doesnt have to become a hard core 24-7 vegan, just a small effort...
YIKES! At least he’s campaigning for Darfur/Sierra Leone, right …?
I agree with you. The man seriously needs to pick a beach, plop himself down, and not MOVE for a few years. Maybe move to a secluded little island and adopt a utopian, PEDESTRIAN lifestyle with Posh. God knows they could afford it!
A few questions about this “footprint” Just because my wife has 1,000 pairs of shoes does not mean she leaves 2000 footprints everywhere she goes!!!
Can Beckham drive more than one car at a time?
If he stopped traveling, would the airline quit flying?
Give me a break. CEO’s for companies in their private jets have bigger feet!
TIBS!!!
Sorry, but Thomas Midgley Jr. has got him beat, as the inventor of CFCs and the addition of lead to gasoline (to prevented engine knocking).
Get a life , you cant tell a person what to do this is no different to 20 normal people haveing equal amount of footprint. He worked his way to be the person he is and its his job and way of making money so stf-up and peace out…sorry ^_^
if anyone is reading this; tony learn to spell and do your homework. as for the beckhams. they are worse than pathetic.
please guys..
give me a break..
his athlete of course he have to travel thats his duty,
yes he own bunch of cars but he dont use all at same time, i think he more concern about the earth than you st**id who wrote this ridicule article
he already done bunch of stuff to help save the world
what have u done ? write article .. yea right.. way to go to save earth.
jealousy means u cant do it.
instead of whining about Beckham, get of ur sorry ass and actually do something.
chill man
He is responsibility for his career, how can he make money devoid of it