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1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 173 points 1 year ago

Majority of private jets carrying 3 passengers or less, releasing 10 times as much carbon per passenger than a commercial flight.

As a peasant, I don't think reducing my carbon footprint will offset the disgusting (increasing) display of greed from the elites.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 97 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the greatest scam the rich ever pulled off was convincing the common people that climate change is somehow our fault instead of theirs. A single billionaire harms the earth an order of magnitude more in a single year than most small towns will in a decade

[-] flux@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

In other words, if all the billionaires just ceased to exist, it would result in the humanity achieving the emission goals?

[-] 14specks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's not strictly necessary either. Chinal allows a good many billionaires to exist, but they are hitting their emissions targets ahead of schedule, cause they don't let the billionaires run the entire show like they do in the USA.