Dame Emma Thompson has admitted it was hypocritical to fly to a climate change protest, but insists she flies a lot less than she used to.
The 60-year-old was criticised earlier this year when it emerged she flew 5,400 miles to attend the Extinction Rebellion protest in Central London.
A flight from Los Angeles International Airport to London Heathrow generates around 1.67 tonnes of CO2.
Now, Emma has said that while it may have been hypocritical of her to fly to the protest, that is not the story.
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Speaking to ITV News, the Love Actually star said: What does it matter that I get pilloried. If you put your head up, thats whats going to happen. But I think what really does matter is to point out that thats not the story.
I was really shocked by that actually, because all these people know I have to fly when I work. I live here, Ive always lived here and sometimes I have to fly. I fly so much less than I did but I do have to fly sometimes.
The Oscar winner continued: The message from Extinction Rebellion wasnt that no one can fly, it was that for decades now we have been asking for clean energy and this has been ignored.
I may well be hypocritical by flying but Im conscious of flying so I fly much less, but sometimes I have to when Im working. But Ill continue to find ways to get to places without flying.
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After the backlash, Emma was mocked by Jeremy Clarkson, who told The Sun: Well, Leonardo DiCaprio has sold his private jet, so thats .0001 of a second longer the planet will exist,
And Emma Thompson is hilarious — there is nothing funnier than a champagne socialist. Nothing on Gods green Earth.
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Thompson is a keen activist and environmentalist, having been a longtime supporter of Greenpeace and an ambassador for the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
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