Adam McKay’s latest climate sermon lands with the usual thunder, yet the Hollywood director’s own carbon footprint tells a quieter story. While he warns that “billions will die” unless the world abandons oil, McKay shrugs off questions about his second home in Ireland—an ocean away from his California base—where private jets and trans-Atlantic travel are the price of admission. The disconnect is hardly new; it’s the same script we’ve seen from Davos elites who lecture on sacrifice while their Gulfstreams idle on the tarmac. For the 2A community, the pattern is familiar: the same voices that demand we surrender our firearms “for the common good” are equally comfortable carving out personal exemptions when the rules inconvenience them.

The deeper implication is that climate alarmism, like many progressive crusades, is less about measurable outcomes than about consolidating power. Once the public accepts that an existential emergency justifies top-down control of energy, it becomes easier to extend that logic to the right to keep and bear arms. History shows that societies which disarm their citizens rarely stop at guns; they regulate stoves, cars, and thermostats next. McKay’s Ireland retreat is therefore more than hypocrisy—it’s a reminder that the ruling class intends to keep its privileges while the rest of us are told to trade liberty for survival.

Gun owners who recognize this bait-and-switch are already pushing back at the state level, passing preemption laws and constitutional-carry reforms that treat self-defense as non-negotiable. They understand that any movement comfortable exempting its own celebrities from its edicts will happily exempt itself from the Second Amendment when the mood strikes. The lesson is simple: don’t trade a proven constitutional right for a speculative planetary forecast, especially when the forecasters won’t live under the rules they write.