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      Swift’s flights were responsible for a thousand times more C02e than an average EU citizen. One has a comma, the other has a dot

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        How much more economic activity than the average citizen?

        Anyway I suppose flying commercial and accordingly taking on a less aggressive tour schedule would help her reduce her footprint. I only know a few her hits (mostly that are more club friendly) personally but acknowledge she’s going to be responsible for more of everything in the aggregate. Way more environmental damage. Way more endorphins.

        So back to “how can she reduce her footprint” while still doing her Swiftie thing? Sure there are plenty of ways.

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          She might do more economic activity but for who? Organizers? Herself? Scalpers? If she has that much money to be considered a billionaire maybe she could do something to cover her footprint. Plant some trees or donate to some organization that occupy with saving the planet.

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          Fly commercial. Drive as much as possible. I assume she rents it out when she’s not actively using it. Stop doing that.

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        Mistaking a comma for a decimal point isn’t really what I’d call ‘math’.

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          Also in some countries the comma, not the dot, is the decimal separator, so I can see how somebody from such a nation who has also been exposed to the use of the dot as decimal separator, might thinl they both can be used like that and mean the same and not be aware that in English-speaking countries the comma is never used as decimal separator.

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      No, a single person is responsible for 8.2 tons and Swift’s JET ALONE did 8.293. That’s not counting all of the OTHER carbon footprint that swift undoubtedly has.

      Edit:uah, even worse. It’s 8 THOUSAND tons for her jet, and 8 tons for the regular person.

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        Right. Her jet alone released the same carbon as 1,000 people. Of course, she’s far from the only wealthy person doing this.