After weeks of being lectured and chastised by celebrities and activists about how everything you do is bad for the planet, these very same eco-warriors are going about churning out far more pollutants than you do.
According to a new study from Stefan Gossling of Lund University, celebrities emit 10,000 more CO2 than the average person, thanks in part to their jet-setting lifestyle, a bit of which is flying to and from places to preach at you about the oncoming climate crisis:
This highlights the insane disparity in carbon emissions between the rich and the poor. In 2018, an average human emitted less than five tonnes of CO₂ overall.
But this hides vast differences in individual contributions. In the case of air travel – the most energy-intensive human activity, no other human activity consumes as much energy in such a short time – the global average is 115kg CO₂ per person per year.
Yet the vast majority of humanity never fly. This average is created by the staggering emissions of the richest proportion of humanity.
I calculated that Bill Gates, for example, causes at least 1,600 tonnes of CO₂ to be emitted into the atmosphere – and this is from flying alone.
Of course, it’s not only celebrities who are the problem. Recently published figures reveal that 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly one-fifth of all flights abroad.
Nearly half (48%) of the population, meanwhile, did not take a single overseas flight in 2018.
Gossling notes that he’s done this with ten different celebrities, and calculated how much carbon they emitted by going through their social media feeds.
He warns that these are just flights he found they took and may not be an accurate number as the celebrities may not even always tell us when they’re traveling somewhere:
The jet-setting habits of Bill Gates and Paris Hilton mean that they produce an astonishing 10,000 times more carbon emissions from flying than the average person.
This was the conclusion of my research mining their social media accounts (tweets, Instagram and Facebook posts) as well as those of a number of other celebrities for clues as to where they were in the world over the course of 2017 and how they got there.
As such, this estimate is conservative – they may well have taken more flights and not volunteered the information to their millions of followers.
While this number is staggering, it’s not surprising. We’ve watched as celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Gates, and Al Gore make a show of being environmentally conscious and fighting for the planet, then turn around and hypocritically burn CO2 as they fly off into the sunset on their private jets.
In the end, the people who are leaving the largest “carbon footprint” are the people shaming you about yours.
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Oh special mention should be made for maggot man Suzuki who owned multiple houses , has 5 kids , and flies around the globe pumping hot air preachy bull shit.
Laurie David from one of her gas guzzling Limos harrasing people in their SUV’s their demands we all go vegan ride bicycles and live in a grass hut while sitting in their fancy homes and remember Al Gores $30:000 a moth Electric Bills and their homes without any Solar Panels and flying all over the world in their Leer and Gulf Stream Jets(John Travolta has a 707)while they lecture us on how to live as one with the Earth
Remember when a ‘jet setter’ was someone who bought airline tickets ? Today, the jet set own their jets. First class isn’t exclusive enough, airline schedules are inconvenient.
They can do what they want with the money we’ve thrown at them, just don’t preach at us, you hypocrites.
It is estimated that 22,000 children a day die due to lack of facilities, medicine, food, clothing or fuel to cook and heat by, using toxic animal dung for fires.
If these hypocrites devoted a small portion of their time and money to the real problems in our world they would earn some respect.
Pouring forth garbage from their ivory towers simply will not work! when 80% of the Worlds population are below the poverty line of 60 cents per day.
Hollywood airheads like Leonardo DiCaprio produces more Hot Air they a whole field of colorful big balloons just by keeping his mouth flapping
How many tons did Trudeau spew in the 2 months he campaigned prior to the official start of the campaign and how much from his TWO campaign planes? Lousy stinking hypocrite and he got elected again. It is obvious rules and laws don’t apply to Liberals or their voters.
They’re going to have to eat TWO babies to offset that carbon footprint…
I assume that the feathers their wearing came from a live bird or did they kill it and pluck off the feathers and throw the rest away