EDITORIAL
Sunday, at the end of the US Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton could be crowned Formula 1 World Champion for the sixth time in his career. The English pilot, who said this week that he saw no reason to stop with Mercedes, intends to work at the same time for the protection of the planet. A new passion that has something to smile, believes our columnist Virginie Phulpin.
"Lewis Hamilton can already be crowned world champion of hypocrisy, he spreads himself on social networks to explain how sad he is when he thinks where the world is going, it took me 34 years to notice but I understand, the extinction of our species is inevitable, I find it rather healthy that he realizes that the planet is in danger, but his speech is so formatted that every sentence sounds like a slogan, and the problem with the slogans is that we doubt a little of the sincerity behind it.
What's great about Lewis Hamilton is that he's mastering ecology as well as turning at 300 kilometers. He has the solution to save the world. Already, he found the origin of the problem: it is agriculture. And he explains that agriculture pollutes more than the entire transportation industry. Oh yes, he is still a Formula 1 driver, so no touch to transport. Since the problem comes from agriculture, we can save the world by becoming all vegan. That's good, Lewis Hamilton has just opened a vegan burgers restaurant in London. Admit that things are well done! "
He still changed his habits
"Yes, that's right, he has a recyclable toothbrush, and he is very proud of it, Matthew, do not forget to take a selfie when you put your sheets of paper in the yellow garbage bin. Lewis Hamilton, it's a feat that deserves a little ad.No, but it's true that he makes efforts.He sold his private jet that he used to cross the planet for a simple evening in Ibiza. It is commendable, all that, but it starts from so far that when he tells us that he wants us all closer to a zero carbon footprint, I wonder if his ability to analysis did not remain stuck in a tunnel in Monaco.
Lewis, you are a Formula 1 driver, you drive cars that consume 45 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers each race, you use about twenty tires and you fly 200 times a year. If you are anxious for the planet, stop all that. There is a Championship of Electric Formula for example. No, that does not interest him. He prefers F1. So we may be without his moral lessons.
We will still recognize something. Thanks to Lewis Hamilton, this is the first time we talk about the environment in the paddocks. But it smells like 'greenwashing' as much as gasoline. "