Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Rich kids desperate to keep their privileges while maintaining the fiction they care about climate change have demanded their parents purchase carbon offsets to compensate for the CO2 burned by dad’s private jet.
Can You Own a Private Jet If You Care About Climate Change?
From offsets to solar-powered planes, the options to lower the carbon footprint of personal air travel today range from easy to almost impossible. By Siobhan Wagner
For many people, private jets seem like an extravagance. But for busy executives and celebrities, the time savings, convenience, and extra security they offer make them more of a necessity.
Lately, however, they’ve come with an added cost: eco-guilt. Younger generations are putting pressure on their wealthy parents and grandparents to consider their family’s contribution to global warming, says Darren Kelland, who handles the affairs of ultrahigh-net-worth clients at Hawksford, a financial-services company based on Jersey, one of the U.K.’s Channel Islands. He recalls that one client’s daughter wouldn’t let her father purchase a private jet without a plan to offset its emissions.
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“I can’t think of anybody who doesn’t care about the environment,” says Steve Varsano, founder of Jet Business, a private plane brokerage in London. “People really do want to contribute to the fix.” Customers who come into Varsano’s showroom are now asking about how to offset the planes’ emissions, he says. At the same time, the industry is testing aviation fuels with lower carbon, Varsano says, which could have a positive impact if widely used.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-22/can-you-own-a-private-jet-if-you-care-about-climate-change
Sorry Greta, you lose. Rich greens never had any intention of giving up flying. Even Extinction Rebellion extremists made excuses for their celebrity carbon hogs flying thousands of miles to join climate protests.
Now the rich have settled on an acceptable cover for their air travel hypocrisy, they no longer have to pretend to cut back on their personal extravagances.
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Keep the oceans blue and the skies light.
It is not just the ultra rich, it is all liberals and I know many who have no problem flying all over, they are all hypocrites.
CO2 offsets itself, by greening the planet. No need to plant trees as offsets, nature does it herself. There ya go, billionaire leftist, you can be guilt free knowing your jet fuel contains built in offsets.
Mark your own logic is flawed its either up there for 50-200 years therefore its a waste of time or it circulates hits the ground and is not there for 50 to 200 years therefore no problem?
pick a side
Where in the atmosphere CO2 resides and how long it resides in the atmosphere are totally independent topics.
The actual science shows that the residence time for CO2 is closer to 10-15 years.
It is absolutely a religion.
A religion, a moral philosophy or behavioral protocol, with deference to, and prostration before, mortal gods. Accompanied by a quasi-faith, or rather a conflation of logical domains, ideology, traditions, and secular incentives.
Daddy and his daughter are just walking into their club for lunch and a game of tennis.
Rich Little Girl: ‘Daddy, I’m worried about the ‘carbon pollution’ your jet makes,” and she luxuriates in the feelings of virtue and superiority she experiences as she says it.
Daddy: ‘Darling, your commie teachers were right to scare you about carbon dioxide. What should we do?’
Rich Little Girl: ‘We could fly on public transport, Daddy.’
Daddy: ‘Oh, Darling, there are smelly people on public transport. We couldn’t possibly.’
Rich Little Girl: ‘Well, my friend Ophelia said her daddy buys something called ‘carbon offsets’.’
Daddy: ‘Yes, we can do that, Darling. It’s just pocket change for me. And the good thing is that if everyone is forced to buy them it will add to the cost of travel, and every extra dollar added to the cost of travel means fewer and fewer smelly people clogging up the places we like to visit.
Rich Little Girl: ‘Thank you, Daddy. I can’t wait to tell my teacher about it. She will be so impressed.’
And as they wander into the club the girl is heard to say: ‘Daddy, when we next go to the airport do you think we could wander through the terminal to see what it is like.’
Daddy: ‘Sure, Darling. It will be just like that visit to the zoo we did last week.’
Good that you used pseudonyms so that you didn’t identify the father & daughter as Mr Thunberg and Greta.
(but I think I may have just undone your good work 🙁
Keep in mind, too, that we’re not just talking about air travel. The Left are slowly moving towards pricing people out of private cars and onto public transport. Well, not all people. They seem to feel they should be exempted, because, after all, the ruling class have important work to do and shouldn’t be distracted from it.
I hear Greta has had a film crew with her ever since her early days striking from school. I understand they are making a full documentary about her, from day one of her protests. It’s for a streaming service called Hulu. How can that be? How can a film crew be there at the very start of her school strike to today unless it was planned?
The carbon credit (CCs) logic constantly fails. Everything we do produces CO2, from the breath of the workers if nothing else. (for now we’ll just ignore the whole carbon =/= CO2)
So with CCs we somehow decide that X is low on carbon production so they get ‘credits’ they can then ‘sell’ to those who produce lots of carbon. (Y) But who decides that X gets ‘credits’ for not producing carbon? After all, their product might be inherently low on carbon production and X is actually producing way more than they should for their process.
Then there’s another fail. Y does not somehow go out-of-pocket for having to purchase ‘credits’ – they simply pass it down to the People – the ONLY sources of wealth on the entire planet and the ones who cannot afford to pay more than they already are.
So they (the People) have to cut back on what they purchase, so both X and Y then sell less, and in these days of weird economics where utilities paid for by the People have to somehow make a profit FROM those People (economic rationalism) and where the entire world economy and monetary system is 100% reliant on an ever-expanding market and profits, that puts the entire planetary system into freefall.
I’m not sure which side of the knife edge our world will fall on but I DO know the ones who will bear the brunt are the only sources of wealth on the planet – the People who are being right royally shafted by the greedy cesspool types living in the muck of the swamp.
You and I will die in our billions but the scum floating on our work and trust already have their plans on where they will go and who they will let live.
And then the the scum floating on our work suddenly find that they have to empty their own chamber pots because there are no maids to do for them…
Need to stoke the socialists in the climate crisis crowd. The rich have more so they should do more to end the crises: pay for carbon offsets (planting trees, constructing solar, whatever that means), AND give up flying. No more carbon emissions means no more carbon emissions. From those according to their ability, and all that. Think of the children. Save the earth. No exceptions.
Get the left fighting the left.
We can but dream of extinction rebellion picketing hollywood movies but it’s a pleasant dream. 😀
Green = hypocrite. Only others need to actually do something unpleasant…