Comfortably Dumb

Earlier this year, Rock & Roll icon David Gilmour sold most of his guitars in what was the most expensive guitar collection ever sold at a charity auction, and also snagged the record for the most expensive single guitar sold at such an event. The proceeds of the sale went - painfully but predictably - to combatting climate change.

Gilmour donated all of the profits from the auction to ClientEarth, a charity made up of lawyers and environmental experts that use the law to combat climate change.

He took the $21+ million in proceeds and then handed it to an NGO of lawyers and climate swindlers. Neato. For that kind of scratch he could buy Al Gore could buy another mansion or Leonardo DiCaprio another Gulfstream. The point is, the money is going to fund the lifestyles of people who tend to have very high personal carbon footprints. As is normally the case, Gilmour's actions to save the planet from greenhouse heat doom will probably only serve to increase carbon emissions. It would have been more carbon-conscious to have had 21 million dollar bills printed and then burnt them, and would have set yet another world record - for largest cash-fueled bonfire. It would be fitting wouldn't it, considering his band was so cynical about money anyway? That's really the annoying aspect of all this. Pink Floyd's most famous song was a critique of the academy as a soul-crushing, mind-numbing machine. Now he sells his own legacy to hand millions to them. How did they flip him? I guess that what's four decades of persistent climate lies results in. It's the quintessential Boomer story arc. In youth, they said, "we must resist establishment brainwashing." In old age, all who resist establishment brainwashing are bigoted science deniers.

In the video below, Gilmour explains why he sold his guitars to support ClientEarth, saying: "The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming becoming irreversible."

Gilmour lives completely within the wall that was built for him by the academic elite and climate hustlers. He has done nothing to stop climate change (if it was even real) and now the guitars he made history on are mounted on the walls of billionaire collectors, as he trembles in fear of quickly approaching climate doom.