While global warming and its effects on climate have reached alarming levels recently, it seems that the rich do not care much about this situation. Billionaires, who often choose to travel by private jets, release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.How green are billionaires?
Dollar billionaires, whose companies constantly claim to take impressive measures against global warming, however, do not give up on their own habits. On Twitter, @i_fly_Bernard, and @laviondebernard keep track of how much carbon the rich are emitting with their private jets. Many billionaires’ jets are under constant surveillance in this context.
Research shows that only the flights of the French 63 billionaires with their private jets are equal to almost half of the carbon emissions of the country’s population. For example, Taylor Swift released 1000 times the amount of carbon emitted by an average individual into the atmosphere with her 7-month flights.
As a matter of fact, this is one of the most important points of criticism of environmental activists. The billionaires’ response to these criticisms is that interesting enough, the boss of Louis Vuitton, Bernard Arnault, who was fed up with the constant pursuit of the firm’s jet, sold his plane. The famous billionaire states that no one can follow him anymore. Elon Musk, on the other hand, offered $5,000 to the developer who prepared this software in the past to delete it. In short, billionaires never compromise their principles.
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