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Article is in italian I couldn't find any news about this in english but i believe it's really important to share.

"Sono attesi dagli 80 ai 90 aerei all’aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia. Jet privati da Los Angeles, New York, Londra e Dubai scaricheranno in laguna un carico scintillante di star, imprenditori, supermodelle, influencer e tycoon. Il traffico aereo privato sarà talmente intenso da richiedere un coordinamento speciale tra l'aeroporto di Venezia e gli scali di riserva a Verona e Treviso. "

Translation:

"80 to 90 planes are expected at Venice's Marco Polo airport. Private jets from Los Angeles, New York, London and Dubai will unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon. Private air traffic will be so intense that it will require special coordination between Venice airport and the reserve stopovers in Verona and Treviso. "

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

But hey, we should do the right thing, save the environment and buy his ev truck!

[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Don't forget to turn off the lights (those LED lights that consumes practically nothing), and recycle (but forget that recycling companies do not actually recycle anything).

As for that EV, it seems an easy way to shame poor people who cannot afford it.

Every time, this world feels like a big joke. Once I retire, I'll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I’ll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.

Enjoy the uncontrolled wildfires. There's no escaping the damaging effects of capitalism.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s why I built my cabin underground

[-] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is your Saddam Hussein structural?

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[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sucks that a small frame single cab pickup truck has to comeback under Bezos, because it is the perfect example of a sane size and price truck, but being attached to Bezos and electric only kills it for me. I was super interested until I did research on the company. I really wish they’d bring back the tiny (by today’s standards) Toyota trucks with the full size bed. Like the mid 90s Tacoma with no lift

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

looks down at paper straw dissolving in glass of water

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is exactly why I don't feel guilt about my statistically insignificant contribution towards climate change.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder how many jet flights do a single year of collective paper straw using offsets

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.

and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.

so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.

that’s fun.

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo

and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you compute it per person I suspect a billionaire is probably producing (just due to flights) about 10000 to 50000 more than an average traveller (couple international flights a year).

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well I am glad I can buy a CEO 10 meters of flight time. My estimates is that our collective world wide yearly efforts can just about earn our top 100 richest turds their annual flight pollution.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, a quick Google search says billions of straws are used every day.

A straw seemingly cointans 0.42 grams of plastic.

So by using paper straws, assuming just 1 billion straws a day, we save 420 million grams (420 tons) of plastic.

Assuming it takes the same amount of oil to create a kg of plastic and a kg of fuel, that is 420 tons of fuel a day, just over 150k tons of fuel a year.

An average private jet has a capacity of around 20 tons of fuel (looked up G650 on Wikipedia).

So, the global paper straw usage offsets at least 7500 private jet flights. More if we use more than a billion straws, and more if we assume a jet doesn't fully burn 100% of the tank on every flight.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the calculation. Sounds about right, according to the link below the top of the ladder billionaire flies about a couple hundred times a year and consumes about 2000 tonnes of fuel. So the fuel consumption you calculated is about 70 billionaires. It is generally true that the top hundred richest people in the world consume/obtain about as much resources as the rest of the world so that calculation is believable.

https://carboncredits.com/the-curious-case-of-top-ceos-private-jet-emissions/

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

90 private jets polluting the planet just to see one rich asshole say ”I do”.

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

We need a French solution to the billionaire problem.

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

˙ooʇ sʞɹoʍ ǝuo uɐᴉlɐʇI u∀

[-] snf@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon

If only that were literally true

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It would be a shame if something were to happen to so many billionaires gathered conspicuously in one place on a very publicized date

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s why they picked Italy, Italy loves fascism

[-] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Italy is also home of the people who responded to that regime by dragging Mussolini and his wife's bodies after their assassination across the country back to Milan, where they were unceremoniously dumped in a town square to be humiliated and desecrated, then hung on girders above a service station in the square by their ankles until they fell and subsequently were buried in unmarked graves.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

but it's also the land of many Luigis, so there's hope

[-] EverXIII@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

dont give me ideas...

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is where God gets to prove he's real, and he's on the side of the people. If it's true, Venice will finally sink into the sea and become a legend, like Atlantis.

If that happens, I'll finally go to church every Sunday. Hear me God? That's what it will take.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Won't someone rid me of these pesky Sociopathic Oligarchs?

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe we will get lucky and some/all will fall into the canals and drown.

[-] zymagoras777@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean she looks and her name sounds hispanic. Shouldn't she be sent to El Salvador? /s

[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

That only applies to the poors.

[-] zymagoras777@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

My bad, forgot to mention that..

Now that’s what I call a target rich environment

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Send more blue shells

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I bet you none those flight will crash. So why do our flights get to crash?

[-] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting. This one have more information about protests and many comments ( also in italian ) https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/06/14/venezia-protesta-nozze-bezos-brugnaro-zaia-ultime-notizie/8025608/

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well that sounds efficient.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve never hoped so hard for a natural disaster

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[-] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tells you how much more style the rich used to have. What good are all those billions today if the place where you live is not as pretty as Venice? Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.

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[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If I wasn't already boycotting amazon, I'd start now.

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