Harrison Ford, a famous Hollywood actor, has frequently traveled via private jet in recent months despite his well-known climate change activism.
Ford’s private jet, a multimillion-dollar Cessna Citation Sovereign, has made at least eight trips stretching roughly 5,284 miles and emitting about 35 metric tons of carbon dioxide in less than two months, according to data from ADS-B Exchange and Celebrity Jets. [bold, links added]
Ford, however, has made regular appearances at global climate conferences, calling upon individuals and government leaders to support efforts to reduce emissions and prevent disastrous global warming.
“It’s hard to read the headlines — floods, fires, famines, plagues — and tell your children that everything is alright,” he remarked at a conservation summit in France last year.
“It’s not alright. Damn it, it’s not alright. It’s alright to feel frustration, anxiety, grief, but don’t run away from it. Cry out for justice, justice for mother nature.”
“The Earth has irreplaceable ecosystems rich in carbon and biodiversity,” he continued. “By preserving just a small fraction of these wetlands, tropical forests, and mangroves, we can protect our wildlife, our air, water, food jobs, and climate.”
Ford added that a younger generation of climate activists has the energy and conscience to do “what we have not yet been able to do.”
“If we don’t stop the destruction of the natural world, nothing else will matter,” Ford said during a separate speech at the 2020 Global Climate Action Summit.
But Ford’s jet has emitted more carbon into the environment in less than two months than the average American burns every two years and the average person worldwide burns every nine years.
The average carbon footprint of an American is 16 tons a year while the average person worldwide burns about 4 tons a year, according to The Nature Conservancy.
Over the last two months, the jet has frequently traveled to and from Los Angeles suburb Hawthorne, California, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, the flight tracking data showed.
The longest tracked flight was a 1,203-mile trek from Wichita, Kansas, to Hawthorne. That trip alone burned seven metric tons of carbon.
A representative for Ford didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Ford, though, is not the only celebrity and climate activist to prefer private jet travel over commercial airlines.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg burned a whopping $116,159 worth of jet fuel between June 23 and Aug. 22, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Spielberg’s Gulfstream G650 flew more than 17,000 miles and burned at least 179 metric tons of carbon in that time span.
Leonardo DiCaprio has flown via private jet and traveled long distances on yachts while pushing extreme climate measures and financially supporting nuisance lawsuits against Big Oil firms. The actor flew approximately 8,000 miles on a private jet in 2016 to receive an environmental award.
In addition, Taylor Swift and members of the Kardashian family have faced heat recently for their frequent private jet usage.
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So, what is Harrison, Leonardo, et al powering those private jets & yachts with…Peanut Oil? I’ll bet Jet A & diesel, respectively. Guess what celebriity types. Thousands of folks here in the U.S, just like me, spent their entire professional lives responsibly putting thousands of gallons of FUEL in your luxury toys over the years so you could get to the global gatherings to “bad mouth” my former industry. You are welcome!
These lectures could be done digitally. Instead fans want to experience the presence of celebrities and celebrities’ egos need to be stroked. Why doesn’t one star try setting himself apart, explain why he’s mailing it in. He’d be ostracized. How much hypocritical CO2 is emitted staging the annual IPCC conference? Cancel it this year.
Our current energy crisis is the fault of the climate activists, too fast too soon. They didn’t acknowledge that when Texas froze over and I don’t expect a mea culpa from them about Europe’s current morass, either.
Just because they make movies then they expect us to do as they say not as they do so do they want us all to Live in Grass Huts and Eat Bugs and stay at home over a totaly fake Crisis? Hollywood has become another hang-out for Hypocrites
Acting? Easy. Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
“It’s me, sugar” Look it up
47 ‘takes’! Ouch…..
Freeze the radical Eco-Freaks up in Carbinite
Harrison Ford, like many others,
has no comprehension that
just because you’re successful in one art form
doesn’t mean you’re an expert at anything
including your successful art form.
The ignorant celebs are inadvertently contributing to global cooling with all the CO2 they create.
CO2 is a coolant and also, more of it in the atmosphere is good for crop yields and plant growth.
SO… Harrison, .. keep up the good work adding CO2 to our atmosphere.
Donna Mills has said AMERICANS NEED TO CUT DOWN IN THEIR HIGH WAYS OF LIVING(You First Donna)while Hollywood Airheads Cameron Daisz and Drew Barrymore tell us how better off the Primematives live then us while flying from here and there in their private their private jets