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Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by jonplackett »

monero-xmr wrote: post #52
mcbrienollie wrote: post #22

Since 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.

If your goal is to cause a revolution, then limiting freedom by “carbon emission limits” is an effective way to do it.

I think a revolution starting because Kyle Jenner isn’t allowed to use her private jet quite as much is… unlikely

Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by southernplaces7 »

A recent flight by Zuckerberg consuming 1.4 tons of CO2 just to get from New Jersey to Jamaica Bay NYC while travelling multiple times the distance between the two if he'd taken a car in a more or less cross-line. His money, his choice on how to use it, but it's rather incredible coming from a guy who yammers on so much to the media about social responsibilities...

Some things never change, and one of them is the way in which the elites take a tacitly "do as I say, not as I do" approach to their discourse.

Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by coryrc »

sublinear wrote: post #29
icpmacdo wrote: post #20

Pointing 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.

It's sad they haven't invested billions in electric delivery trucks.

Oh wait: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/everything-y...

Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by icpmacdo »

sublinear wrote: post #29
icpmacdo wrote: post #20

Pointing 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.

I'm arguing a tool like this could counter act the pressure of the societal delusion caused by these celebrities berating the working class about their virtue signalling causes like plastic straws while incurring such outsizes externalities. I'm not arguing against a big to small approach but this effect on discourse is important and its hypocrisy currently harmful.

Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by bee_rider »

kensai wrote: post #30
Pepe1vo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t think anyone here can produce that information, tax records are private, right? We’d also need to know what percentage of our taxes go to cleaning up carbon emissions, which I think is… pretty low?

Re: Celebrity Flights

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Post by tssva »

ajaimk wrote: post #34
cj wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at her flight log, my guess is the jet she owns is run by a company that rents it out to other people. If that’s not the case, I have no idea why anyone would fly from Atlanta to Savannah and then depart again 2 hours later. Must be rented out to others

Is it a Gulfstream? Might be a maintenance run since Gulfstream's HQ is in Savannah.

It is a Gulfstream G650ER.
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