Australia’s state of the environment report - kept secret for seven months by then environment minister Sussan Ley, who may well be our acting prime minister in a few years - found Australia’s environment is suffering severe deterioration. If the aviation sector was a nation, it would be among the top 10 global emitters.Īnd we’re seeing the result play out in real time. Indeed private jets are twice as likely to be used for trips under 500km in Europe compared to commercial flights, even though aviation contributes 3.5% of all global emissions. Europe’s leading transport campaign group Transport & Environment found one in 10 flights leaving France in 2019 were private jets - and half of those travelled fewer than 500 kilometres. Private jets emit two tonnes of carbon dioxide in just one hour - that’s about how much CO2 a normal person emits in one year.Īnd private jets are far more ubiquitous than we might realise. More than 100 million Americans have been given extreme heat warnings today as wildfires rage in 13 states, while Iraq has choked through nine sandstorms (lasting several days each) in the past eight weeks alone. It might have started as just another way we can ogle the lifestyles of the rich and famous amid our intensely celebrity-focused culture, but London is on fire amid record 40-degree temperatures while Australia’s east coast has been underwater twice this year, the first being the most expensive flood ever. Now Sweeney’s bot tracks celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and Jay-Z as they (assumedly) fly to glamorous destinations to rest and recuperate from the sheer exhaustion that being insanely rich must cause.
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