Carbon pollution from high-flying rich in private jets soars
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“The problem is that the 26,000 aircraft and the individuals using them will say ‘We are just a small group. We are not relevant in terms of emissions.’ But everybody else will look at the small group and say, 'Look these are the super-emitters, if they are not relevant, how can we be relevant?”

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds.

About a quarter million of the super wealthy — worth a total of $31 trillion — last year emitted 17.2 million tons (15.6 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide flying in private jets, according to Thursday’s study in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment. That’s about the same amount as the 67 million people who live in Tanzania

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    8 days ago

    And it ain’t gonna change. As of this week, I’ve given up on my personal environmental conservation. Separating my recycling does nothing useful when it’s so far outweighed by this.