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@[email protected] to World [email protected] • 6 months ago

‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions

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‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions

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Analysis of 19m flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50% rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste’
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    Here’s an article detailing some of the shortest flights celebrities have been criticized for taking:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/kylie-jenner-short-private-jet-flights-super-rich-climate-crisis

    A taste from the article, detailing the excesses of 24-year-old influencer Kylie Jenner:

    “According to an automated Twitter account that tracks celebrity flights based on transponders and tail fin marking, Jenner’s flight on 12 July lasted just 17 minutes, taking her from Van Nuys in Los Angeles to the nearby town of Camarillo. The model had earlier taken a 27-minute trip in her jet, a $72m Bombardier BD 700, to Van Nuys from Thermal, California.”

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      a 72m Bombardier

      Influencers make multiple tens of millions now?

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        She does, somehow. At 27 years of age her estimated worth is apparently around $710,000,000

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          I wonder if people really buy worth $710mil more because of her.

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        She’s a Kardashian. Unfortunately, I know this.

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