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1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yea. If every person reduced their impact by a tonne, that's 65 tonnes of CO2 saved

How many private jets is that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If every person reduced their impact by a tonne, that's 65 tonnes of CO2 saved

Woah there, not everyone!

We can't expect the wealthy jet owners to participate, we are trying to offset their carbon usage after all, it wouldn't be fair if they had to do it as well..