Along with data on private jet landing and takeoff patterns, Sweeney also posts estimates of the associated fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions of the flights. “Flight shame” really took off in 2018 after an environmental campaign in Sweden urged people to find less polluting ways to travel. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg then made waves for taking a two week by sea journey to attend a climate conference in New York the following year.
A report in 2022 on celebrities with the biggest carbon footprints from flying placed Swift at the top of the list. “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect,” Swift’s representatives responded at the time.
“The statements by her team directly contradict each other,” Sweeney says in his email to The Verge, referencing the 2022 statement and the recent letter sent to him. “This event is eerily similar to December 2022 when Musk tweeted he would take legal action against me.”
Most of us don’t have personal responsibility for the liberation of carbon. We were thrown into a civilization that requires it to exist in the only way we know to exist and can’t destroy that without making oneself an effigy.
But these people absolutely have responsibility. There needs to be a quota system on unnecessary pleasure travel, particularly in private jets. It has no social utility but a disproportionate carbon budget.
There was a good group of people who sabotaged private jets. Let’s do more of that.
She’s worth a lot of money.
Is there any evidence that she’s contributing to finding a solution? Carbon capture comes to mind
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Along with data on private jet landing and takeoff patterns, Sweeney also posts estimates of the associated fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions of the flights. “Flight shame” really took off in 2018 after an environmental campaign in Sweden urged people to find less polluting ways to travel. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg then made waves for taking a two week by sea journey to attend a climate conference in New York the following year.
A report in 2022 on celebrities with the biggest carbon footprints from flying placed Swift at the top of the list. “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect,” Swift’s representatives responded at the time.
“The statements by her team directly contradict each other,” Sweeney says in his email to The Verge, referencing the 2022 statement and the recent letter sent to him. “This event is eerily similar to December 2022 when Musk tweeted he would take legal action against me.”
Most of us don’t have personal responsibility for the liberation of carbon. We were thrown into a civilization that requires it to exist in the only way we know to exist and can’t destroy that without making oneself an effigy.
But these people absolutely have responsibility. There needs to be a quota system on unnecessary pleasure travel, particularly in private jets. It has no social utility but a disproportionate carbon budget.
There was a good group of people who sabotaged private jets. Let’s do more of that.
She’s worth a lot of money.
Is there any evidence that she’s contributing to finding a solution? Carbon capture comes to mind