“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

  • fishpen0@lemmy.world
    21·
    8 days ago

    Aluminum has a nearly 98% recycling rate. There is so much more to recycling than just plastic. Don’t fuck this up

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      8 days ago

      I can not fuck it up as much as I want, and Bezos et al will fuck it up more than enough for everyone.