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Avalanche2 t1_jbkjcoo wrote

And what is even more interesting is private jet usage also released about a billion tons of CO2 in to the atmosphere. Yes, all the politicians and hollywood celebrities telling us poor folks to save gas, go green, and eat bugs, are polluting more than any of us. They need us to conserve so they dont have to. FACTS

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ChargersPalkia t1_jbks45j wrote

aviation only accounts for 2% of global emissions, a stat in which private jets make up a small fraction of that 2%. So no, its not "FACTS" to try and push off responsibility by just blaming politicians and hollywood celebrities.

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fix-all-the-things t1_jblooci wrote

Stop being an idiot. Many of those politicians and celebrities can't fly on regular planes like the rest of us. There would be too many people causing problems with them. There's no other options available to them.

You're also doing exactly what the oil companies want you to do. BP invented the personal carbon footprint after spending a lot of money researching ways to get people to stop being angry at them. The result is a way for you to look at your own carbon footprint as well as other individuals. This made it easy for you to find other targets that aren't oil companies for you to get your anger out on. You fell for it all too and now get your outrage fix whining about SUV's and personal jets which is very cathartic, then have nothing left for the actual polluters.

Oil companies invented plastic recycling too for the same reason. They knew public anger was growing against them so they hatched a very successful plan to divert that. They basically paid other countries to take our plastic and do whatever they wanted with it. We fell for that pretty hard as well and even had some politicians write laws forcing people to participate in the scam.

If you actually want to help make things better, leave individuals out of it. SUV's are not a problem. Personal jets are not a problem. By spending energy on those targets you're giving the actual polluters a huge break and making it easy for them to do nothing.

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