But hey, we should do the right thing, save the environment and buy his ev truck!
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We need a French solution to the billionaire problem.
˙ooʇ sʞɹoʍ ǝuo uɐᴉlɐʇI u∀
looks down at paper straw dissolving in glass of water
This is exactly why I don't feel guilt about my statistically insignificant contribution towards climate change.
I wonder how many jet flights do a single year of collective paper straw using offsets
according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.
and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.
so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.
that’s fun.
tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo
and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)
If you compute it per person I suspect a billionaire is probably producing (just due to flights) about 10000 to 50000 more than an average traveller (couple international flights a year).
Well, a quick Google search says billions of straws are used every day.
A straw seemingly cointans 0.42 grams of plastic.
So by using paper straws, assuming just 1 billion straws a day, we save 420 million grams (420 tons) of plastic.
Assuming it takes the same amount of oil to create a kg of plastic and a kg of fuel, that is 420 tons of fuel a day, just over 150k tons of fuel a year.
An average private jet has a capacity of around 20 tons of fuel (looked up G650 on Wikipedia).
So, the global paper straw usage offsets at least 7500 private jet flights. More if we use more than a billion straws, and more if we assume a jet doesn't fully burn 100% of the tank on every flight.
That’s why they picked Italy, Italy loves fascism
Italy is also home of the people who responded to that regime by dragging Mussolini and his wife's bodies after their assassination across the country back to Milan, where they were unceremoniously dumped in a town square to be humiliated and desecrated, then hung on girders above a service station in the square by their ankles until they fell and subsequently were buried in unmarked graves.
dont give me ideas...
unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon
If only that were literally true
I’ve never hoped so hard for a natural disaster
I understand your feeling but keep in mind that many people live in Venice. Some of them are organizing against the event, it's not fair to wish for a natural disaster.
A highly selective natural disaster maybe.
A natural disaster of the Luigi variety
It’s not fair for jeff bezos and his band of cronies to exist either. Sometimes the world is unfair. At least in my example the unfairness would be swift and would overwhelmingly result in a net positive for humanity
Now that’s what I call a target rich environment
90 private jets polluting the planet just to see one rich asshole say ”I do”.
I mean she looks and her name sounds hispanic. Shouldn't she be sent to El Salvador? /s
That only applies to the poors.
Oh they are kettling themselves. It would be a shame if something happened to all of them simultaneously
Tells you how much more style the rich used to have. What good are all those billions today if the place where you live is not as pretty as Venice? Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.
Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.
You'd need some scuba gear, probably.
This is where God gets to prove he's real, and he's on the side of the people. If it's true, Venice will finally sink into the sea and become a legend, like Atlantis.
If that happens, I'll finally go to church every Sunday. Hear me God? That's what it will take.
I bet you none those flight will crash. So why do our flights get to crash?
Good luck, 47.
"INTO the lagoon", you say? Promise?
All the Sociopathic Oligarchs in the same place at once? Look, I'd normally be against this sort of thing, but if someone wants to drop a nuke on Venice, I could excuse it just this once.
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