Carice van Houten states that there is absolutely no truth in Bart Ettekoven’s claim that she shops online extremely often and thus burdens the environment. “Thirty packages? That’s not right!”
49-year-old Carice van Houten was once seen as sympathetic, but is now mainly known as a pushover. She campaigns for the climate, but critics say she is extremely hypocritical. Her own ecological footprint would also be enormous and then you should not stand on the highway to lecture others, is the criticism.
Eighteen packages
Bart Ettekoven, one of the faces of Shownieuws, states that he uses the same post office as Carice. “And then that lady said: ‘Oh, a lot of people come here from television. Also Carice van Houten. Well, she’s knocking the door down here.’”
What would the actress keep doing in that post office? “The lady said: ‘She picks up eighteen packages a week and then sends half of them back. Well, that’s nice and climate-conscious.’”
Carice denies
It is no secret that online shopping and sending packages back and forth is extremely damaging to the climate and the environment, but Carice now strongly denies it.
She chimes in Het Parool: “I recently read in one of those gossip columns that I would return thirty packages to my regular post office every week. I have ADHD, I don’t even know how to return a package.”
Hypocrisy
Carice understands the criticism of her hypocrisy. “I don’t have a clean flying record, but for a perfect green conscience you have to live naked in a rain barrel. And even then you still emit CO₂ when you breathe. Everyone is a hypocrite, including me.”
She continues: “We are all stuck in a system that wants more and more, we have all been made or became addicted. As far as I’m concerned, a smoker can also be angry with the tobacco industry.”
Magnifying glass
Carice is annoyed by the criticism of her as a person. “We have to stop putting each other under a magnifying glass. Pointing out each other’s mistakes is counterproductive.”
“It’s also a shame to waste energy on internal bickering, while big companies just carry on and think: let the mob blame each other. We simply continue with: drill, baby, drill.”
