High flyers: Top 10 celebrities with largest carbon footprint due to private flights
High flyers: Top 10 celebrities with largest carbon footprint due to private flights. When we talk about global warming, we discuss the greater responsibility that a few have for CO2 emissions. These would be the celebrities with the highest emissions according to a Yard study.
By Megan Sauer
A study by Yard in 2022 identified which would be the private planes of American celebrities that had emitted the most CO2, only in the first half of 2022.
According to their estimates, based on the flight records of the private jets of public figures, the top 10 was headed by Taylor Swift, Floyd Mayweather, and Jay-Z.
Yard’s investigation indicated that the data for it was compiled from 1,500 trips recorded by celebrities, but that there was no way to verify whether in each of them the celebrities were on the planes, but whether they were their private jets.
In that sense, according to the research, the celebrities who emitted the most tons of CO2, in the period of time evaluated, were Taylor Swift with 8,293; Floyd Mayweather with 7,076; Jay-Z, 6,981; A-Rod, 5,342; Blake Shelton, 4,495; Steven Spielberg, 4,465; Kim Kardashian, 4,268; Mark Wahlberg; 3,772; Oprah Winfrey, 3,493; and Travis Scott, 3,033.
Among the relevant data published by Yard, they found that during the period evaluated each celebrity emitted an average of 3,376.64 tons of CO2, which means 482 times more than what an average person emits annually.
In addition to revealing that the flights had an average duration of 71.77 minutes, and only an average distance of approximately 100 km.
The above data demonstrates the enormous distance between the emissions of an average person and a celebrity, since an average person can generate only up to seven tons of CO2 per year.
In times where global warming is on most international agendas, the debate on those most responsible for CO2 emissions contemplates several fronts. There are those who allude to the fact that the solution is to reduce the population, and that one of the causes of climate change is overpopulation.
On the other hand, there are those, like Yard, who demonstrate that the greatest emissions are concentrated in a few; Furthermore, demographics and data have shown that the population is increasingly decreasing, and even that the most populous country in the world, India, is not the largest emitter of CO2.
