Article is in italian I couldn't find any news about this in english but i believe it's really important to share.

"Sono attesi dagli 80 ai 90 aerei all’aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia. Jet privati da Los Angeles, New York, Londra e Dubai scaricheranno in laguna un carico scintillante di star, imprenditori, supermodelle, influencer e tycoon. Il traffico aereo privato sarà talmente intenso da richiedere un coordinamento speciale tra l'aeroporto di Venezia e gli scali di riserva a Verona e Treviso. "

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"80 to 90 planes are expected at Venice's Marco Polo airport. Private jets from Los Angeles, New York, London and Dubai will unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon. Private air traffic will be so intense that it will require special coordination between Venice airport and the reserve stopovers in Verona and Treviso. "

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[–] 242 points 1 year ago (52 children)

But hey, we should do the right thing, save the environment and buy his ev truck!

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago (41 children)

    Don't forget to turn off the lights (those LED lights that consumes practically nothing), and recycle (but forget that recycling companies do not actually recycle anything).

    As for that EV, it seems an easy way to shame poor people who cannot afford it.

    Every time, this world feels like a big joke. Once I retire, I'll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.

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    [–] 214 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    We need a French solution to the billionaire problem.

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    [–] 187 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    looks down at paper straw dissolving in glass of water

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I wonder how many jet flights do a single year of collective paper straw using offsets

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s why they picked Italy, Italy loves fascism

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 87 points 1 year ago

    unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon

    If only that were literally true

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I’ve never hoped so hard for a natural disaster

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Now that’s what I call a target rich environment

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    90 private jets polluting the planet just to see one rich asshole say ”I do”.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    If I wasn't already boycotting amazon, I'd start now.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Maybe we will get lucky and some/all will fall into the canals and drown.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean she looks and her name sounds hispanic. Shouldn't she be sent to El Salvador? /s

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Oh they are kettling themselves. It would be a shame if something happened to all of them simultaneously

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Won't someone rid me of these pesky Sociopathic Oligarchs?

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I bet you none those flight will crash. So why do our flights get to crash?

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "INTO the lagoon", you say? Promise?

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Flight Radar 24 will busy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    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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