‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions | Analysis of 19m flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50% rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste’

@silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

@ratel@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

Ah yes, flying to Cop28 climate summit in my private jet…

@7oo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 months ago

Meeting rest of the polluters,
Courting fossil fuel producers,
Making promises that disappear,

So I can fly again,
to more conferences that end in vain,

To save the plaaanet,
in my private Jet…

BigFig · 5 months ago

“used like taxis” no shit, what else does the term “private jet” imply.

@DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Well, with airlines getting worse and more expensive, small jets are becoming a more viable alternative…