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Kylie's 17-Minute Flight Has Nothing on the 170 Trips Taylor Swift's Private Jets Took This Year
Taylor Swift's private jet has flown more times than any other celebrity jet this year, emitting 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon per a new report.
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As the world quite literally burns and floods, it’s important to remember that individualism won’t really solve the climate crisis, especially compared to, say, the wholesale dismantling of the brutal grip the fossil fuel industry has on modern society. Still, there are some individuals who could probably stand to do a bit more to mitigate their carbon footprint — among them, the super-wealthy who make frequent use of carbon-spewing private jets. (And let’s not even get started on yachts.)
While private jets are used by rich folks of all kinds, their use among celebrities has come under scrutiny recently, with reports of the likes of Drake and Kylie Jenner taking flights that lasted less than 20 minutes. In response, the sustainability marketing firm Yard put together a new report using data to rank the celebrities whose private jets have flown the most so far this year — and subsequently dumped the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Drake and Jenner both appear on the list, but they’re actually nowhere near the top, which is occupied by none other than Taylor Swift. According to Yard, Swift’s jet flew 170 times between Jan. 1 and July 19 (the window for the Yard study), totaling 22,923 minutes, or 15.9 days, in the air. That output has created estimated total flight emissions of 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon, which Yard says is 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions. (At least one more flight can be added to that list, too: The flight-tracking Twitter account Celebrity Jets notes that Swift’s plane flew today, July 29.)
So, this is not based on any analysis of Swift's aircraft. I doubt anyone anywhere near the writing of this article would understand any kind of technical analysis. It's based on the number of miles the aircraft flew. Swift's spokesman's defense is that she often leases or lends her aircraft to others so all the miles are not miles that she is responsible for.
I think a much better answer would have been, "kiss my ass."
This needs to be said way more often to these whiny liberals, insisting that we defend ourselves from their often bizarre and illogical criticism. The reason that Swift takes a private jet instead of riding a solar charged electric scooter is that her personal goals are way more important to her than saving the planet, assuming you accept the idea that private jets are destroying it. Like Greta Thunberg, she doesn't care about any supposed harm from private jet travel.
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Liberals, if you don't like private jets, tell your party to ban them. Let Al Gore, Jeff Bezos, the royals of England and Bill Gates fly commercial. I'm sure they can afford first class, so they will get to board first. If you are not lobbying for the banning of private jets for everyone, stop the wailing. It is as annoying as the wailing of babies on commercial jets, which is no doubt part of why the 400 people who flew into the COP26 environmental conference chose to take private jets.
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Some activists at COP26 will be urging others to cut down on air travel, but apparently it is fine for billionaires to fly in on their own planes on routes already served by commercial airlines.
