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‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It found almost half the jets travelled less than 500km and 900,000 were used “like taxis” for trips of less than 50km.

Less than 50 kilometres. With a jet. Let that level of misanthropic assholery sink in.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

I drive 130-160km(depending what route I take) a day getting to and from work 5 days a week. It's about 2hrs driving time daily. £70 of fuel a week roughly. The fact that these people are spending probably just as much time, and magnitudes more money to go the same distance.... seems like an angry mob and a BBQ could solve this problem....