If they weren't telling the rest of us how to vote/think/live, nobody would be as bothered by their lifestyle.
While the rest of us have been fretting about recycling and using paper straws, a new study shows that the super-wealthy have been polluting more than ever.
Despite being owned by just 0.003 per cent of the population, research shows that private jets of the rich make an 'outsized' contribution to climate change.
Scientists from Linnaeus University in Sweden found that private jets produced 15.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2023, up 46 per cent from 2019.
The most frequent fliers each churned out 2,400 tonnes of emissions in 2023 – more than 500 times as much as the average individual.
Last year, ultra-rich jet owners – including the likes of pop star Taylor Swift and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – flew for almost 26,000 hours over 4,301,561 individual flights.
However, the researchers argue that a sizeable amount of these journeys could have been made by car or other means of transport.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14054663/Carbon-emissions-private-jets-increased.html