This should be illegal.
The flying or the tracking?
Both, two birds with one stone
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#22Since 99.9% of the flights and the people are already registered, there should be a worldwide limitation per each of the person for CO2 emissions.
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#23Never heard of Kylie Jenner, turns out she is an air pollutant.
It's annoying how people blatantly about things like this.
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#24It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.
Paying taxes absolutely increases CO2 consumption because you are enabling the US military to conduct wasteful operations around the world.
We should pay less taxes because the government is extremely wasteful and polluting overall.
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#25This should be illegal.
I hate to put it this way, but most flights are commercial passenger or freight. Only a small amount are private jets, so this really only affects a small number of people.
Do you think Mark Zuckerberg would argue in favour of greater privacy for you?
I think the effort of making flight data private (and all of the solutions we'd need to find for very important transponder/communications technology) is better spent on other privacy issues first.
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#26It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.
How do taxes offset CO2? If anything they indirectly contribute to carbon emissions by way of fossil fuel subsidies.
Fossil fuel is not subsidized with tax money. It’s subsidized with tax discounts. That’s happening regardless of tax income because the federal government doesn’t run a balanced budget.
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#27170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?
Fight climate change.
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#28I kinda find it creepy tracking people’s flights. Besides, some jet owners charter out their planes when not in use, so it’s incorrect to attribute all the miles to them.
Some people say its based on public data but I think that its tapping into a network of moles to track celebrities. Really creepy stuff.
> This confuses the issue though. ICAO numbers change if your aircraft is enrolled in the PIA program, which Elon is. Sweeny was bypassing this by using people on the ground to circumvent this by watching the jet's movement and if an aircraft was going to takeoff that had an unknown ICAO number he'd have someone at the airport to figure out it was Elon's jet that had changed it's ICAO number.
> Your link will only be valid until he again changes his ICAO number.
> More info: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
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#29Pointing towards this to help reconcile some of the hypocrisy from celebrity messaging seems productive towards better discourse on climate change imo
What's missing here is a sense of scale.
Routine private jet flights are nothing compared to last mile freight such as Amazon. Short frequent trips by delivery drivers from your local warehouse to your doorstep should not be so wasteful.
The largest source of pollution is freight in general. Hating on individuals solves nothing at all.
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#30It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.
How do taxes offset CO2? If anything they indirectly contribute to carbon emissions by way of fossil fuel subsidies.
In the sense that Taylor Swift and Elon Musk probably pay more taxes that can be used to offset the CO2 they produce by flying and being efficient for their work.