Celebs are being called out for using their private planes for short flights (like 5 minutes), thoughts?

[JustinTheGreat]

Aircrafts are one of (if not, THE) highest causes of cO2 emissions. People are calling out celebrities for taking their private jets on very short rides causing a lot of pollution.
Taylor Swift is the celeb that produces the most emissions with her private jet (though people argue that she rents out her jet to other people so not all of the flights are from her). Other celebs with high emissions include Drake, Kylie Jenner, Floyd Mayweather, and Jay Z.

“the report stated that planes affiliated with celebrities emitted an average of more than 3,376 metric tons of CO2 — roughly 480 times more than an average person’s annual emissions. “

personally, if I was rich enough to have a private jet, you bet your ass I’mma be taking that shit everywhere 💀 However these celebs are taking them to destinations that would take 30 minutes by car. That’s just unnecessary 🥴

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I agree with most of y’all that it’s not even the fact that they use private jets, But it’s just the hypocrisy for me.
These are the same celebs who preach about climate control and tell us to stop using plastic straws and stop using our air conditioners.
Climate change is caused by these rich people and corporations. The carbon footprint of the average person makes up a very small percent compared to them. A 10 minute flight produces more emission than what we produce in an entire YEAR.

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And some of y’all are saying that you don’t care about CO2 emissions at all but you really should. The damage that we have done to this earth is almost at the point where it’s completely irreversible. But corporations will not stop polluting because all they care about is money. They will continue to convince y’all that climate change isn’t real just so they don’t seem like bad people for destroying our planet.
Scientists say we have 8 years left to save the planet. That’s it. EIGHT years.

[Ευδεμονια]

I agree with a more responsible usage of their planes since it’s only a waste to use a plane to do such short trips.
Let think also about all other useless planes usage, like the military ones (which no one’s talks about), or like the politician ones. In Italy we had premiers and ministers doing flights with military aircraft (so imagine, it’s not a light and thin private plan, it’s a military transport aircraft) only for going to a pleasure trip. This is what I call irresponsibility and waste of resources. At least celebs pollute environment by spending only their own money, politicians on the other hand spend public funds.

[alice55]

That's good and it should also be forbidden to own one, in my country we're going to be under extremely strict laws for this winter and the summer to come (and in Germany their laws would be even stricter) because of the sanctions imposed ro Russia we have not much oil neither gas or electricity so forbidden to use AC if temperature is not higher than 28 degree, forbidden to heat our house higher than 18 degree if not they would cut our electricity during 2 or more hours a days, everyday.

In Germany it's even worse in school PE class people are going to get forced to have cold shower, etc...

So we're forced to make all those small efforts who are not going to make a big difference but some celebrities can go around doing whatever they want? Wasting ressource? It's not logic, in this time of war they should be the first to stop consuming so much.

[CrazyGirl2]

It”s about time! Oh I don’t care about the CO2, I just can't stand the hypocrisy of celebs taking private jets to everything from an opening, to an “emergency” environmental conference (double hypocrisy). Then tell me I will burn in hell for driving a Jeep!

Literally what our Secretary of Transportation said (minus the cursing)!

[Wise4myage]

LOL.

[Wise4myage]

Same goes for John Kerry, the so called "Climate Czar", lol.

[MikeInHawaii]

@Wise4myage Ah, John Kerry, owner of three private jets, a fleet of cars, an armada of boats….

[Wise4myage]

@MikeInHawaii Exactly, do as I say, not as I do.

[CrazyGirl2]

@Wise4myage I’m getting more and more convinced that for some unfathomable reason they, whoever “they” are, want to eliminate the middle-class! I have absolutely NO idea why, anyone would want this? This country, as with most of Europe became incredibly wealthy when the middle-class emerged during the industrial revolution. Why the hell would they want to destroy that, or the middle-class? In 2020 (according to the census) MOST Americans were (still) employed by a middle-class small business owner. I doubt that is still true, given all the small businesses that were forced by government edict to shut down, many permanently due to the terrible governmental mismanagement that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic!

[Wise4myage]

Spot on CrazyGirl, that is exactly what they want to do.

[CrazyGirl2]

@Wise4myage Thank you 🙏🏼

[jshm2]

It's mostly bullshit.

Unless they are taking off from their own private airfield or Cessna in front of their house, no one is taking a "5 minute flight". In fact any flight less than 30 minutes is commercially unviable. It takes about that long to check and refuel the plane!

[JustinTheGreat]

Kylie Jenner took a 17 minute flight and that’s what started the whole debate
And apparently Elon Musk frequently takes flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Hawthorne airport, which is only 6 miles and takes 5 minutes

[MikeInHawaii]

With private jets, they can have the plane waiting on you with the engine idling. You show up, a valet parks your Rolls Royce, and you can be taxiing out thirty seconds after you arrive.

I have been on scheduled flights that short, but there were bodies of water on the route. Flying 30 miles across a bay rather than 180 miles around it makes perfect sense. I’ve also flown 28 miles from Oahu to Lanai.

[Mcelroi]

I think anyone who returns anything online should also be called out. Hell, anyone who buys anything online should too. Look at all the climate saving that could be done if you simply made as much of the things you need rather than purchase? If people would start making small changes. - like growing their own gardens, stop eating animals, or better, end their habit of breathing - the climate would improve dramatically.

Do yes, call out the celebs, then call out yourself. Let’s end this world together!

[FunkyMonkee]

Well? If they wanna perpetuate the global warming hoax, they need to practice what they preach! How important can it be when the people doing most of the pushing of the hoax are globe hopping all over the planet in their PRIVATE jets to tell you all about how bad the situation supposedly is?
How do you like that $10,000,000 mansion that Barry Soetoro just bought on the shoreline? Obviously, HE'S not worried about the ice caps melting and causing global flooding!!

[MikeInHawaii]

Which shoreline mansion? He has one on Martha’s Vineyard and one on Oahu. I drive by the one on Oahu on a regular basis. He tore down a house on the National Register of Historic Places and somehow got a permit to rebuild a sea wall, when no one else can.

[FunkyMonkee]

@MikeInHawaii I don't know. I just heard that he recently bought a new mansion on the shore. If I was as scared shitless about global warming as he pretends to be, I'd buy one as close to the center of the country as possible and it'd be way up high on a hill!!

[FunkyMonkee]

Justin, there's NO SUCH THING as climate change!! The ONLY thing causing that is THE SUN!! REAL scientists know this and will tell you that the Sun has phases, much like a woman has periods, but these are in intervals of several thousand years. At one end, it warms up for a while, at the other, it cools down for a while.
Jupiter is going through the same thing we are (which really isn't much to worry about)! If what's going on here is because of what we're doing on this planet, how is it changing what's going on on Jupiter? You're telling me that if a field of cows all fart at the same time, it's gonna change the temps on Jupiter? Even if it does, the only person it's gonna bother is Cher! Or, did she come back from Jupiter, already?

[JustinTheGreat]

according to different sources, over 90% of scientists agree that climate change is caused by humans. Lol.

[JustinTheGreat]

But you go ahead and listen to the 10%

[FunkyMonkee]

Right! 90% of the 3% that were asked! Most of which are in the back pockets of the government!

[FunkyMonkee]

You go ahead and listen to that 1%!

[PamelaRivers]

Hey, they earned the money, do what they want with it.

The only time it bothers me (to echo what some one else is saying) is if they take a private just like that, then want to lecture me over how my car (I had) with a V8 (was) killing the environment.

I have something smaller now, I can actually afford to keep gas in.

[MikeInHawaii]

Exactly! Leonardo DiCaprio won an award for his work protecting the environment. He flew a private jet to go get the award. He also went to the Olympic Games in Brazil on the world’s fifth largest yacht.

[PamelaRivers]

@MikeInHawaii Right, funny you should mention Mr. DiCaprio, I heard a few years ago he was in Australia on New Years Eve. After the party there jumped in his private jet and flew to LA just so he could bring the new year in twice in one 24 hour time frame.

[MikeInHawaii]

And I tend to both buy efficient cars and live close to work. I’m not going to buy an electric car when my Honda hybrid probably has ten or fifteen years of useful life left. Scrapping perfectly good cars to buy electrics is a waste of money and natural resources.

[PamelaRivers]

@MikeInHawaii Good point. And if we did all buy electric cars, the increase needed in power production would come close to the same gas emissions as we have with out cars now. The grid isn't ready for them and there sure isn't enough solar or wind farms for them.

[PamelaRivers]

meant "our" cars now not "out."

typo

[MikeInHawaii]

Of all the places whose grid’s aren’t ready, California is probably top of the list. That’s where they’re pushing the hardest for electrics.

I also like to wait until I know a little of the car’s track record before I buy it. The 2010 Ford Focus electric was a $39,000 economy car. The battery’s went out at about 60,000 miles, cost $16,000 to replace, and Ford quit making the batteries. I can drive a Mercedes 60,000 miles and not take a $39,000 hit on depreciation. My 2011 Honda cost $20,000 less and $16,000 for a battery every 60,000 miles us a hell of a lot more than I spend on gas.

[PamelaRivers]

@MikeInHawaii good point, I did not know that about the batteries.

[PamelaRivers]

@MikeInHawaii Oh and it's really a minor cost at this point, but I now drive a car with a 1.9L motor so I now get slapped with a "Road Usage" fee every year on my property tax for my car. It was a fee meant to hit electric cars mainly but any vehicle that gets over a certain miles per gallon rating has to pay that cause the state thought it wasn't fair to everyone else that the owners of those cars aren't paying as much gas taxes as people with clunkers.

[MikeInHawaii]

Hawaii has a weight tax, figuring heavier cars put more wear and tear on the roads. My Lexus has $450 license plates since it weighs 3,600 lbs. I drive it about 509 miles per year.

[BCA6010]

And yet at the same time, we are expected to believe that regular people and "celebs" relate with each other and we should take their disconnected opinions and self-omissions from environmental consciousness as gospel truth...

I have flown around a lot more than most people, but I won't even consider flying if it isn't either paid for by my job, or somewhere I could drive to myself in just a few hours. The shortest flight I regularly take is DFW to Kansas City.

[MikeInHawaii]

I think the real issue is their unbridled hypocrisy and narcissism. It’s one thing to fly by private jet because you can afford to. It’s another to use a private jet while telling me to protect the environment by riding a bike instead of driving my Honda Hybrid.

[Googlemyahoo]

So there's a free app you can get that tracks airplanes called Flightradar. This pic is just the planes in the air currently over North America.

[bolverk]

Private jets should attract higher taxation, if they can afford the jet the can afford the extra tax. for instance Justin Trudeau recent fights for vacations, family trips etc, released more CO2 than the whole of the Truckers Freedom Convoy at the beginning of the year.

[NathanDavis]

I still feel kind of bad for all the stuff I've ordered online in the last three years... so many packages, the delivery people invited me to their wedding, lol

doesn't mean I'm going to stop... it is what it is, sadly

[becee23love]

Well I think it's understandable because there celebs they will be crowded with fans, holding them up but I'm sure a lot of them just choose to go on there private planes etc.. because there rich and can lol.

[MikeInHawaii]

When I worked in the Atlanta airport, I saw Hulk Hogan, Isaac Hayes, Marie Osmond, Mike Wallace, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Bo Diddly, Truett Cathy (billionaire founder of Chic-fil-A) and many others flying scheduled airlines. Jack Nicholson never used private jets. Delta used to take some high profile celebrities to their flights in private cars.

At the height of her popularity, Britney Spears said no one recognizes her if she just puts her hair in a baseball hat and wears sunglasses. Celebrities can travel without being mobbed.

[becee23love]

Oh wow. I'm sure it's possible but I'm sure it gets annoying having to always disguise and takes a while if they really need to get somewhere having back to back shows or whatever it maybe

[bayoubob]

Plus, these celebrities are the same "heroes" Libtards look up to. They tell Libtards how important the the Earth is. Libtards eat it up.

[bayoubob]

We've been told since the 70's Florida will be swallowed up in no time. Florida ain't going no where. Obama's and the ALMIGHTY Inventor of the Internet Al Gore's houses use up more resources than a small city. Leo DiCaprio is a shill of a dip shit. The amount of jet fuel these cocksuckers consume alone tells you how retarded people are. Global Warming is bollocks. AKA BullSHIT. Electric cars? Shit. How much diesel is consumed to charge these monstrosities? Has anyone proved yet, that recycling in general is doing any lick of good vs the detriment to the Earth in doing so? Nope. But, you must Refuse or Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

[Guy13]

Perceived Elites can do that kind of thing while they sit in judgment and condemn others.

[JustinTheGreat]

Rich people and billion dollar corporations are the reason for our earth being destroyed but yet they tell us “you’re destroying the earth because you use plastic straws 😡”

[Guy13]

Damn, you hit that right on the head you Styrofoam Nazi...

[Gamer24]

It's stupid sure, but if you had that kind of money and access wouldn't you try it at least once?

[Anonymous]

if i had a private jet i'd be doing the same fuck what other people think. i drive to damn much and i know the hellish conditions that are on the roads when driving. if i can fly you bet your ass i'm flying. i'll take flying over driving any day

[SocialEngineering]

They're not breaking the law, morals are arguably subjective. In all honesty no one else has a right to tell them what to do with their property.

[Sour-rose]

Maaaaan, when i get to that level of money, idgaf. I worked my ass off to have this luxury.

[Rania05]

It's their money, they works hard and deserves pampering themselves. Government is trying to degrade celebrities and blame pollution on them when what they actually does is minium compared to others.

I'd also ride my own jet if I can.

[JustinTheGreat]

Their jets alone produce 480 TIMES the amount of emissions the average person produces in a year. How is that “minimal compared to others” lol

[Rania05]

Says this to companies who sell it to them, I'm not the authorities. Minimal because if it's only celebrities' private planes pollution wouldn't have been nearly any bad as it's now

[MountAverage]

I think there should be legal restrictions on private jet flights. Like, heavy legal restrictions.

[Stollje]

If I owned a private plane I’d sure use it, life is shoet

[Spiritofn]

Well ya it sounds like it’s deadass walking distance….

[OddBeMe]

Ehh, meat eating is 10x more corrosive. And celebs csn’t just sit on a crowded plane without causing chaos.