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Tax private jets in Europe now 🛫🛩✈🌍

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Rich 1% people are consuming more resources and emitting more carbon emissions then the rest of the world. We need to tax private jets in Europe now and use the money to fund environmentalprojects- they can afford it.
Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars

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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  • Gorffly mokua

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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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    • Rashid Kamau

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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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      • Joseph Githinji

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        Living luxuriously and forgoing environment conservation is a death sentence to our planet.

        • Annett Michuki..

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          I agree on this

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