Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds.
About a quarter million of the super wealthy — worth a total of $31 trillion — last year emitted 17.2 million tons (15.6 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide flying in private jets, according to Thursday’s study in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment. That’s about the same amount as the 67 million people who live in Tanzania
They don’t care. They can afford to survive anything bad that might happen.
And it ain’t gonna change. As of this week, I’ve given up on my personal environmental conservation. Separating my recycling does nothing useful when it’s so far outweighed by this.
Let’s turn them all into artificial reefs
