Taylor Swift is the celebrity who pollutes the most with a private plane, according to data

After a report by UK-based marketing and sustainability firm Yard named singer-songwriter Taylor Swift a “champion of offenders” among the celebrities who emit the most pollutants with their private jetsa great debate has opened about the impacts of individual decisions on climate change.

This is not the first time that private planes – which have been proven to emit a lot of CO2 – are linked to the habits of famous people. After all, to charter a jet for flights of just over an hour, as the author of “I knew you were trouble” commonly does, you need a lot of money.

So, in addition to Taylor, the Yard also “reported”, based on the CelebrityJets Twitter page, several celebrities, such as wrestler Floyd Mayweather, rapper Jay-Z (aka Beyoncé’s husband), baseball player A- Rod and country music singer Blake Shelton, among others.

But will patrolling Taylor Swift change the planet?

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logically, anyone’s behavior, whether it’s Taylor Swift’s 22,923-minute flight in 2022 or any of us driving to the movies, has an impact on climate change. But would “framing” all those famous for excessive emissions be enough, for example, to meet the goals of the Paris agreement?

In email sent to website axiosNASA climate scientist Kate Marvel summed up the issue: “My feeling is that while I would prefer Taylor Swift make more responsible transportation decisions, yelling at internet celebrities isn’t on my personal list of ten political priorities. “

To the publication, the Austrian climate economist Gernot Wagner stated that It’s all just a “distraction”. In other words, by focusing on the consumption habits, even exaggerated, of individuals, we are allowing the big polluters – such as fossil fuel industries – to “pass the buck” of their responsibilities to consumers.