That’s a familiar pattern. A wealthy and self-righteous elite who crosses the earth with a private jet and shame others for doing the same, as long as it is done with less charm and more purpose. What are the latest targets for their selective rage? Six women flew privately on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket last week.
You will think that such moments – aerospace engineers, entrepreneurs, and other skilled women who make history on suborbital missions – may justify the celebration. Instead, it drew a light corn. According to Hollywood’s self-appointed moral authorities and their Instagram followers, this was a serious crime against the planet and the poor.
These flights are more than Joyrides. They are testbeds for innovation, job creation and future scientific breakthroughs.
What the climate elite ignores is again – women’s progress on Earth, or in space, depends on what they take for granted. Energy.
Access to reliable and affordable energy is the basis for women’s liberation in developing countries. It means a future that doesn’t start with gathering light to study at night, clean water, safer births, personal safety, and fire. Like flying into space, the freedom to dream big starts with the freedom to turn the switch over.
Classical Virtue Signaling
Gale King, one of the passengers and pioneers of journalism, correctly called Backlash “elite and sexist.” But she left something: it’s not just sexist. It is sacred, selective, choking. These are trademarks of climate virtue signaling.
How the game works in today’s reverse moral order is praised for being enlightened from Davos or Cannes to Cannes to lecture the public about climate change. Aboard a rocket as a civilian scientist or entrepreneur, you are a villain and a carbon criminal with the wrong pedigree.
Leonardo DiCaprio complains no one to “save the sea” by bouncing off the islands on a yacht. John Kelly is able to cross the Atlantic alone on a jet to accept the climate award, with no hypocrisy mentioned. But without the blessings of the green nobles, the mob lights the torches.
Companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX aren’t just about space tourism. They push the technological boundaries that benefit everyone, from global internet access to environmental monitoring. These flights are more than Joyrides. They are testbeds for innovation, job creation and future scientific breakthroughs.
And here is the big truth. Rich and affordable energy is the most powerful engine of human progress. The society with the highest access to energy is where women thrive. Education, healthcare and economic opportunities all expand when energy is abundant. When the climate movement deviates innovation and blocks energy development, it is not about saving the planet – it is blocking billions of dreams, especially women and girls.
However, climate elites are not interested in nuances. Their worldview leaves no room for freedom or desire. Just guilt, rules, and control.
There is no apology
What makes this even worse is their rog arrogance. It somehow poses a threat to “fairness,” as if they were to launch six women into space. These women did not request permission from the Climate Commission. They did not issue a carbon apology. They didn’t buy the dul from Greenpeace. They flew – because they can. That’s what really infuriates their critics.
The same people who are ashamed of Americans by driving pickups or heating homes drink imported oat milk and old others from top-notch lounges. They insist that they speak for justice, but their double standards have always returned to their own comfort.
Instead of blaming these women, we should praise them. In an age where pessimism is the norm and complaints are the currency, their audacity reminds us of what an unadulterated ambition looks like.
We should ask: Can we empower more women to not only fly into space, but also lead science, business and technology? The answer is energy. The free market is not scary, it launches the next generation of pioneers.
This was a victory for human achievements. The amount of hand-winding in Hollywood cannot reduce that.
To a woman of blue origin: Don’t let the sacred elite pull you down. You already touched it while they stared at the sky.
