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Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars
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. Private jet emissions jumped 46% from 2019 to 2023, according to the European research team that calculated those figures by examining more than 18.6 million flights of about 26,000 airplanes over five years.
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Taxing private jets is a smart step towards climate justice—those with the highest carbon footprint can contribute to funding essential environmental projects. It’s time for sustainable luxury to take responsibility!
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Prioritizing luxury and consumerism at the expense of environmental conservation is an unsustainable path with profound consequences for our planet and future generations.
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Living luxuriously and forgoing environment conservation is a death sentence to our planet.
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