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Just Plane Wrong: Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions | Insights | Yard (2022) (weareyard.com)
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A full breakdown of the top 10 celebrity CO2e offenders:

  1. Taylor Swift: 8,293.54 tonnes (per year), or 1,184.8 times more than the average person's total annual emissions.

  2. Floyd Mayweather: 7,076.8 tCO2e (tonnes of CO2 emitted, per year)

  3. Jay-Z: 6,981.3 tCO2e

  4. A-Rod ( J-Lo's ex-fiance and baseball player) : 5,342.7 tCO2e

  5. Blake Shelton: 4495 tCO2e

  6. Steven Spielberg: 4,465 tCO2e

  7. Kim Kardashian: 4268.5 tCO2e

  8. Mark Wahlberg: 3772.85 tCO2e

  9. Oprah Winfrey: 3,493.17 tCO2e

  10. Travis Scott (Kylie Jenner’s Beau) : 3033.3 tCO2e

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

When are we going to introduce tokens to handle externalities like this? It shouldn't be possible or at least easy to abuse resources like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i see, time for ~~food~~ calorie stamps i guess ..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's not what i'm suggesting, and the limits and costs associated with externalities could be tuned so that the life of a normal person would not be altered if not in the sense that you would get additional tokens that you can keep or sell depending on your needs and personal values. I can elaborate if it's unclear.

The real change would be that if a billionaire wants to live that kind of lifestyle, they would have to gather enough tokens from the market. This would really enable some sort of trickle down because they would have to buy the tokens from you and you would always be able to tell them "no" and keep them from polluting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To clarify, these tokens would be in addition to money, not a replacement for them. It's a concept more similar to the carbon markets but they would be at the level of the citizen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

sure, since its not a single person planet: everyone should have a say on someone's behaviour toward the climate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe by getting onto the list, you earn a Manpad token, and have it delivered during your next flight