“The problem is that the 26,000 aircraft and the individuals using them will say ‘We are just a small group. We are not relevant in terms of emissions.’ But everybody else will look at the small group and say, 'Look these are the super-emitters, if they are not relevant, how can we be relevant?”

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds.

About a quarter million of the super wealthy — worth a total of $31 trillion — last year emitted 17.2 million tons (15.6 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide flying in private jets, according to Thursday’s study in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment. That’s about the same amount as the 67 million people who live in Tanzania

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I don’t know, a well-stocked bunker and some armed AI security drones will let them ride things out for quite a while.

      • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        Sounds like a fun existence. And when they exit, they will see that it was not worth it and regret their decisions. Hahahahah, that was a joke, they have no empathy for their fellow human beings - they’ll regret not gathering more power/money.