From the UK Daily Mail:
New Yorkers uploaded images to social media sites showing piles of trash – included ditched paper and cardboard signs – left behind after thousands took part in the People’s Climate March.
‘Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can,’ one critic, known as @chelsea_elisa on Twitter, wrote beneath an image of an overflowing trash can.
‘Somehow this doesn’t seem too green 2me,’ David Kreutzer, a research fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, wrote alongside another photo of litter on the ground.
Speaking to the New York Post, Kreutzer slammed the marchers for wasting paper to create the signs, as well as burning fossil fuels to take buses or planes to the event.
‘The hypocrisy varies from person to person,’ he said. ‘The ones that fly in on private jets are the most hypocritical.’
Celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, were seen parading through the streets of New York City – presumably after catching flights to be there.
They joined as many as 300,000 others – including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. senators – to march through the streets.