Which stars pollute the most ? This is the question posed by the site The Shipyard29 July 2022. Result: a ranking of celebrities that he uses their jet as much as we poor mortals take the bus.
In the first place of this sad top, we find Taylor Swift. Despite defense attempts of the singer, this information quickly inspired meme makers on the Internet.
The staggering numbers of Taylor Swift’s private jet
To establish this classification, The Shipyard present a series of astounding figures. Concretely, Taylor Swift has amassed a total of 170 flights between January and July 2022. The site specifies that this data is all the more impressive as the singer is “Is not currently on tour. “
These flights would account for almost 16 days passed through the air and a carbon emission of 8,293.54 tons” this is 1,184.8 times more than the total annual emissions of an average person. “
Taylor Swift’s private jet becomes a meme
To address these allegations, Taylor Swift spoke through a spokesperson on July 31. Instead of questioning this practice ecocidethe release ignore the ecological problem and states:
“Taylor’s jet is regularly loaned to other people. To attribute most or all of these trips to him is patently incorrect.
The gap between ecological disaster and this response at least light transformed the ” Taylor Swift squirts “in a viral Internet phenomenon full of nuggets:
Beyond the naivety of these memes, we must remember that ecology is not a matter of irresponsible people but of system. Taylor Swift is just one symptom among others of an ultra-rich elite that pollute the most, e the trivialization of destructive practices for the environment. For example, according to Oxfam and Greenpeace, 63 French billionaires emit as much CO2 as 50% of the population in 2022. The Twitter account @i_fly_Bernard enjoys illustrating it by following the round trips of Bernard Arnault’s private jet (majority shareholder and president and CEO of the luxury group LVMH, also owner of the newspapers The echoes And The Parisian). Will you be able to recover from a small heatwave, with your train ticket at an exorbitant price?
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