Summer Camp

Google, an American multinational company that specializes in internet services and products, recently held their Summer Camp.  This is not the kind of summer camp most of us can recall.  Those hot summer days filled with poison ivy, mosquitoes, campfires, s'mores and bunk houses with no air conditioning.  Singing Kum Ba Yah, swimming in a lake or learning how to pitch a tent.

No, this Summer Camp is supposed to be quite secretive.  Only the creme de la creme, the very best, the super elite are invited to attend.  It was held in Riber, Sicily, Italy at the beautiful Verdura Resort.  This place boasts two golf courses, spas and rooms that start at $903 a night.  

Google invites the very rich and powerful to attend so they can talk about how to make the world a better place.  They discuss things like human rights, education and other global issues.  This year though, they focused mainly on climate change.  Some of the attendees were the former president of the USA, Barack Obama,  Leonardo DiCaprio.....actor, Katy Perry.....singer (recently accused of sexual abuse by two people), Tom Cruise.....good actor....weird person, Prince Harry....has he ever worked?,  Mark Zuckerberg, Bradley Cooper, fashion designers and many other millionaires and billionaires, which may be the reason many journalists refer to it as "The Billionaires Club".

The 'campers' arrived in 114 private jets, guess no one thought to jet-pool to reduce the carbon footprint, and over a billion dollars worth of diesel burning luxury yachts.  When not discussing the grueling emergency of the state of the climate, they were seen scurrying around in Maseratis and gas slurping ATVs.  The campers did have to pay their own way to get to the resort, but after that, Google picked up the tab.  To the tune of somewhere around 20 million dollars.  

Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this situation?  Were there any of the Inuit Elders invited to the camp?  The ones who talked to NASA about how the stars have changed position because the Earth has tilted, something it has done for eons.  Were there any conversations about the thousands of everyday people who have reported the sun rise is in a totally different area of the horizon?  Yes, the sun rise does move throughout the year, but the changes that are being reported around the globe are not the subtle changes that occur in the yearly trip around the sun. 

This seems like an experiment in totalitarianism, where only a few make the rules and those rules are not to be questioned.  It also seems like a blatant flaunt of wealth over the rest of the populace.  Perhaps a closer look needs to be taken at Google itself.  After all, should we trust and American company who helped a communist country develop a program to censor and spy on their own people?