Kylie Jenner’s private jet flights are bad – Taylor Swift’s antics are worse. Research reveals that no one sits in a private jet as often as Taylor Swift. Other celebrities prefer to look at the climate crisis from the air.
On the red carpet, all the top stars are climate savers. Important topic. After an event, however, the reality appears to be different. As research by the British marketing agency “Yard” and a nasty student on Twitter show, some celebrities spend an alarming amount of time in private jets – regardless of the enormous emissions and costs that such planes cause. Undefeated in first place: Taylor Swift.
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The study was based on data from the CelebJets Twitter account, which can be attributed to Jack Sweeney, the same young man who drove Elon Musk insane (read more here). Sweeney doesn’t do anything illegal: Using public data, he remembers which private jet belongs to which person and publishes a tweet as soon as these planes move.
“Yard” analyzed these movement profiles and compiled statistics. The trigger for the work was the scandalous flight of influencer Kylie Jenner, who recently caused an outcry with a short-haul flight of a ridiculous 60 kilometers (find out more here). But despite her jet-set lifestyle and provocative postings on Instagram, Jenner currently only makes it to number 19 of the biggest air polluters.
Annual average in 10 minutes
The top 10, led by Taylor Swift, eclipses Jenner. “Yard” created the ranking according to the so-called greenhouse potential, measured in tons of carbon dioxide. On average, according to the research, each private jet celebrity has produced 3376 tons of carbon dioxide so far this year. For comparison: an EU citizen consumes between seven and eleven tons a year, Americans are slightly higher with an average of 16 tons. But now the flop ten for the period from January 2022 to today:
- Taylor Swift – 170 flights – 8293 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 36 minutes
- Floyd Mayweather – 177 flights – 7076 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 10 minutes
- Jay Z – 136 flights – 6981 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 29 minutes
- A Rod – 106 flights – 5342 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 34 minutes
- Blake Shelton – 111 flights – 4495 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 27 minutes
- Steven Spielberg – 61 flights – 4465 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 18 minutes
- Kim Kardashian – 57 flights – 4268 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 23 minutes
- Mark Wahlberg – 101 flights – 3772 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 29 minutes
- Oprah Winfrey – 68 flights – 3493 tons of CO2 – Shortest flight: 14 minutes
- Travis Scott – 3033 tons of CO2
Regarding the methodology of the research by “Yard” and also “CelebJets”, it should be said that these are all flights of the jets – whether they are flying for maintenance, picking up someone or actually traveling with the respective owner.
“Why save?”
However, the prominent passengers will not be able to avoid a fundamental debate for much longer. The flights are getting a lot of attention around the world, with Vice magazine calling the private jet aficionados “climate criminals.”
In the social networks, people are wondering why, against the background of such environmental sins, people are talking about smaller savings measures and climate-neutral lifestyles when a few cause the annual carbon dioxide pollution of an average person within ten minutes.
In fact, aviation is turning out to be a major driver of climate change. According to “Yard” it accounts for 2.4 percent of the annual CO2-Burden responsible – flights in private jets are a disproportionate part of this.
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