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

How can someone be this bad at math...

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.

A weird take, but ok... Are you a "swiftie"? Going to bat for a rich popstar is a little weird.

carbon offsets

they are tge best market solution we have thus far yo the climate crisis

Bullshit. Carbon offsets is mostly a scam where polluters "offset" real emissions with potential if not purely theoretical mitigation. The reforestation that companies claim offset their emissions would fill more land than there is on earth in total.

Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry, to name the worst problem humanity has, is emitting MORE than ever while using the Carbon Offsets scam to greenwash their killing millions of people a year while being the main cause of climate change.

The best solution is, has always been and always will be to emit less pollutants.

Well if you really start looking into it, carbon offsets are mostly a scam.

For instance just declaring: "I will cut down this forest" without ever having the intention to do so, and then not doing it counts as a carbon offset. This is what abgreat part of companies are doing. Just saving forests that nobody wanted to cut down in the first place from being cut down. This they then sell to the consumer as a carbon offset.

John Oliver had a great segment on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0

I didn’t know you could pay money to reverse the damage you have personally caused to the climate crisis

The neoliberal levels are through the roof!

jfc, it's actually worse than I thought

Her private jet has the most CO2 emissions out of any celebrity. She defended that by saying she rents it out, so it wasn't all her; as if that changes how much the private jet she owns has emitted. As far as the rest of her environmental impact, it is likely no worse than other performing celebrities so not great but in larger amounts than other celebs.

She does seem to do well by her support staff. She gave out $55m in bonuses to everyone who worked on her last tour.

She has donated a lot, but I couldn't find out if she has donated over the deduction cap or if she claimed the donations. As far as I can tell the majority has been given to food insecurity charities and disaster relief. So even if it is a tax scheme, she seems to be giving in the right direction.

I am not a fan of her music, but she doesn't seem like a terrible person except that she has unimaginable wealth, a massive platform, a highly influential brand, and isn't doing as much as she could to help others.

Eh, keep in mind that the right have been gridlocking each other in US Congress with the weird alt-right RINO stuff. There's infighting on both sides; the US essentially has multiple parties within each major party.

Because it is hard for the individual to risk being destitute if he rises up and no one follows.

I think they were aiming for the neck