Hold Celebrities Accountable for Their Environmental Waste, Too
Feel like this shouldn’t have to be said
I’ll defend Taylor Swift’s dating history, and her music for the most part, but I draw the line at her ungodly amount of private jet carbon emissions.
The Twitter account Celebrity Jets, which imports from “the world’s largest public source of unfiltered flight data,” found that Taylor Swift’s “aircraft’s total flight emissions were 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon, which is 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions.”
Taylor Swift’s spokesperson would like you to know that her plane is regularly loaned out to others, but Vulture commenter kmm said it best: “Unless the loans were exclusively to Make-A-Wish kids, I’m not buying it. It’s your plane, you loaned it out.”
She may not be Jeff Bezos, but as damaging as her actions are — her “jet has amassed a vast 22,923 minutes in the air” in just seven months — I still figured billionaires would be leagues ahead of her in carbon emissions. Yet, her private jet alone is about equal with them: “20 billionaires contributed an average of about 8,190 tons of CO2” in 2018. Granted, researchers declared their estimates conservative due to various constraints.
