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Just Plane Wrong: Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions | Insights | Yard (2022) (weareyard.com)
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A full breakdown of the top 10 celebrity CO2e offenders:

  1. Taylor Swift: 8,293.54 tonnes (per year), or 1,184.8 times more than the average person's total annual emissions.

  2. Floyd Mayweather: 7,076.8 tCO2e (tonnes of CO2 emitted, per year)

  3. Jay-Z: 6,981.3 tCO2e

  4. A-Rod ( J-Lo's ex-fiance and baseball player) : 5,342.7 tCO2e

  5. Blake Shelton: 4495 tCO2e

  6. Steven Spielberg: 4,465 tCO2e

  7. Kim Kardashian: 4268.5 tCO2e

  8. Mark Wahlberg: 3772.85 tCO2e

  9. Oprah Winfrey: 3,493.17 tCO2e

  10. Travis Scott (Kylie Jenner’s Beau) : 3033.3 tCO2e

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't they renting them out most of the time, making their customer the main culprits?

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

China and India are renting out their factories to create shit ton of things for the whole world. When the statistics come out, they get blamed for it regardless of the countries profiting off their pollution. why should this be different?

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The money from renting it out doesn’t go towards the environment to my knowledge. It’s still not beneficial to anyone but themselves, thus the list makes no distinction.

They’re also not forced to rent them out. They make the decision to trade climate damage for money which is doubly dubious when they probably do not need the money.