{"id":1396150,"date":"2022-03-23T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396150"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:45:30","slug":"dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-maintains-2nd-home-in-ireland-while-posing-as-climate-crusader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-maintains-2nd-home-in-ireland-while-posing-as-climate-crusader\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don&#039;t Look Up&#039; Director Adam McKay Maintains 2nd Home in Ireland While Posing as Climate Crusader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-maintains-2nd-home-in-ireland-while-posing-as-climate-crusader%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396150&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Netflix\u2019s <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> director Adam McKay has used Oscars season to re-invent himself as one of Hollywood\u2019s most vocal climate change activists. He has called climate change the most serious threat facing mankind, demanded the defunding of a natural gas pipeline, and even claimed that anyone who dislikes his movie isn\u2019t serious about global warming.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s one inconvenient truth lurking beneath the <em>Vice\u00a0<\/em>director\u2019s\u00a0woke facade: McKay and his wife have owned homes in Los Angeles and Ireland \u2014 a 10,000 mile roundtrip that gives the celebrity couple an elephantine carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20336636\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239306050.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>US filmmaker Adam McKay speaks during a rally to protest City National Bank and Royal Bank of Canada\u2019s financing of climate crises and disregard for the rights of indigenous peoples, in Los Angeles, California, March 18, 2022. (RINGO CHIU\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldlandtrust.org\/carbon-calculator\/individual\/flights\/flights-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Land Trust<\/a>\u2018s carbon calculator, a roundtrip flight for McKay, his wife Shira Piven, and their two children \u2014 even assuming economy-class seating for all four travelers \u2014 would produce 9.97 tons of CO2 as each passenger travels 10,337.2875 miles in the air. Drives to and from airports are not part of that calculation.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for McKay didn\u2019t respond to questions from Breitbart News about the ownership status of the Ireland residence and how the family travels to and from the property.<\/p>\n<p>McKay\u2019s residence in the Irish countryside was revealed in a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/adam-mckay-shira-piven-ireland-home\">article<\/a> in <em>Architectural Digest<\/em> magazine, which devoted a lavish photo spread to the 12-acre estate\u00a0in County Cavan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAiibNBnX91\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIreland doesn\u2019t have the white noise that America has\u2014you don\u2019t have this sense of constantly being advertised to,\u201d McKay told the magazine. \u201cIn Los Angeles, there\u2019s always this buzzing. We just immediately talked about how quiet and relaxing it was to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a05,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom home underwent extensive renovations, including the\u00a0replacing of the hardwood floors, gutting the kitchen and baths, and installing a new staircase.<\/p>\n<p>McKay \u2014 who is nominated for two Oscars for <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>, including best picture \u2014 has preached the gospel of climate change in conjunction with Netflix\u2019s release of the movie in December. The movie itself is a political satire that uses an asteroid headed toward Earth as a metaphor for global warming.<\/p>\n<p>In one interview, the filmmaker called climate change the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/12\/director-adam-mckay-the-climate-crisis-is-the-story-of-all-stories-in-the-history-of-stories\/\">biggest threat to life in human history<\/a>,\u201d saying he made the Netflix movie as a way to get people talking about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, McKay reportedly participated in a street demonstration in downtown L.A. to demand the defunding of Canada\u2019s\u00a0Coastal Gaslink pipeline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Director of the Oscar-nominated film <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DontLookUp?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontLookUp<\/a>, Adam McKay, joined a protest in LA last Friday targeting a \u201cdirty bank\u201d that is funding the Coastal Gasoline Pipeline in solidarity with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en indigenous community.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ActInTime?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ActInTime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateClock?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateClock<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AdamMcKay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AdamMcKay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhostPanther?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GhostPanther<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MnwUxRfC2d\">pic.twitter.com\/MnwUxRfC2d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CLIMATE CLOCK (@theclimateclock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theclimateclock\/status\/1506204303861628928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The pipeline has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/19\/hollywood-celebrities-leonardo-dicaprio-jane-fonda-mark-ruffalo-oppose-canadian-natural-gas-pipeline-as-energy-prices-soar\/\">pet cause<\/a> for Hollywood celebrities, despite soaring energy prices that are disproportionately hitting middle class families.<\/p>\n<p>Adam McKay is worth an\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-celebrities\/richest-comedians\/adam-mckay-net-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">estimated<\/a> at $40 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow David <\/em><em>Ng on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Up director Adam McKay has used Oscars season to re-invent himself as one of Hollywood\u2019s most vocal climate change activists. 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