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Swift also bought more than double the amount of carbon credits needed to offset her private jet use for her Eras Tour, Paine told the Post on Monday.
What a joke.
Yep. The problem is that 90% of offsets are fraudulent. So just buying more doesn't help
I feel like we need a Martin Luther for climate issues. You can't buy your way into heaven and you can't buy imaginary climate credits. Plant a fucking tree or fly commercial.
I hate how carbon credits are a thing. It's just throwing money at a problem so people turn a blind eye to what you're doing and not actually helping solve the problem.
Bullshit. Offsets are a serious market solution to climate change.
I'm actually starting a retail business for them. You can use Venmo, or Cash App, to purchase offsets for your day to day climate killing activities.
I'm even running a special. Normally it's $1 per mile driven, but today it's only $0.85/mile AND I'll throw in an offset for 5 pieces of petroleum based articles of clothing.
Once I've received payment, I'll send you a photo of the trees you just saved.
See? Totally legit. You don't have to thank me, just send me money. I'm happy to be doing my part!
If only 10% are real, then you just need to buy 1000% offsets!
Problem is that the more fraudulent offsets you buy, the more that get created to fill the demand for them. You can't buy your way out of this problem.
Flight information is public. Sorry you don't like that, but suing this student won't change the availability of that information, and anyone could take their place in running a bot.
Maybe don't use a private jet then?
It would be a lot harder to track someone on a random flight in business class. And I can't imagine business class is more expensive than flying private.
With random peasants? Are you crazy? But then again, swift fans seems super nuts, so i wouldn't wanna meet them as well
It would be enormously easier to track Taylor Swift on a random flight in business class, because the moment people saw her on their random flight in business class it would turn into a social media frenzy.
As a non American, I wouldn’t care actually. You guys need to chillax with your celebrity fetishisation
Lol, you think only Americans worship celebrities? You need to travel more lol - shit is an issue everywhere, you ever seen a k-pop idol?
Some humans just fall for that shit for whatever reason.
As an American, I can honestly say the only three times I've met a celebrity, once I didn't even recognize her (still don't remember her name, she had appearances on crime shows) , once I didn't care to acknowledge their presence (Kevin sorbo) , and once I literally just said "Hey do you and Alan Tudyk ever hang out since firefly? I love that show" to Nathan Fillion. Yes, they do things together sometimes.
Swift: I've gained a lot of goodwill among people this last month, how can I ruin it and make myself look like an out of touch millionaire again?
Starting to get curious, what did she do that counts as goodwill?
Pissed off Maga and is helping young people to register and be politically active by voting. I liked that she was getting her fanbase involved so they would actually vote instead of just bitching. But now she's gonna and done this, reminding us she's nothing but an out of touch millionaire
Sweeney’s coverage, which uses publicly available data from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and broadcast signals from aircrafts...
Morrone added that there was “no legitimate interest in or public need for this information, other than to stalk, harass, and exert dominion and control”.
There's no need for public information from the FAA and broadcast signals from aircraft except domination and control?
This dude has to be a republican.
She's rich enough to be able to easily afford ANY travel type possible, without having to even ask the cost, and she chooses the dirtiest and most expensive one.
If she cared about climate change, she would just intrinsically understand that paying someone else to be a good person doesn't morally justify her being a bad person (aka, how carbon credits are marketed and sold).
Instead of taking a trans-oceanic flight, she could go on a container ship or sailboat. She's a musician and I bet these experiences would be vastly more inspiring than harassing college kids through lawyers.
For domestic travel she could use a vehicle powered by restaurant waste vegetable oil (WVO) instead of fossil fuel. Or she could take an EV charged by renewable sources. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman did a 13000 mile (21000km) electric motorcycle trip in 2019 from the southern tip of Argentina to Los Angeles called The Long Way Up, their 3rd such superlong trip, and their first on electric vehicles. They loved it and called it the future, and they had support from a prototype Rivian truck, which therefore advanced the space of electric cars as well. MANY people are doing this, some rich, some poor. For our climate emissions, there's no time left for excuses either for Taylor Swift or for ourselves.
Imagining her bursting out of a container at her next gig
I came across this site a few years ago. Free to all with no login, they allow you to search for any call sign and show it on a map, complete with path from originating airport.
They have a free account allowing you to do even more (single plane) and 25 planes will cost you US$40/year. Android and iOS apps available.
They also have information on how to get or build the necessary equipment.
The most recent information I can get with a simple Google search shows that the call sign of one of her planes is N621MM, although other links suggested that she has more than one plane and has sold planes to escape this tracking.
Knock yourself out. Post it all over the damn place. Streisand effect FTW.
Taylor Swift threatens legal action against person posting the same public information the jet itself posts (ADSB). nothing illegal about this. come at me swifties.
Can't have proof you're a major polluter
Haha, hasn't she learned about the outcome of the Streisand effect when Elon Musk tried to prevent it
(e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/)
I think all of this should be a motivation to track all kinds of private jets of billionaires, and make it as public/loud as possible...
Transponders are, by necessity, public. What a ridiculous C&D.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD can someone please explain to her what a train is
She is a selfish cunt. Only a selfish cunt would fly a private jet every where they go.
I can’t imagine how large this ugly cunts CO2 footprint is.
Looks like this cunt is upset someone is calling her out on her selfish shitty behavior. I hope more people step up to track her so she gets even more upset.
We should be shaming cunts this like.
In this thread: People so upset about using the word cunt they are willing to ignore the actions of some celebrity contributing to the culture of excess that is harmful to our world, while at the same time making herself look like an uneducated child by tossing threats that have no bite. She's now Mini-Elon to me.
That's the thing for me about this kind of ad hominem bollocks: the discussion invariably goes: "she's an ugly cunt" "no need for that" "why are you so offended" "you should focus on the point at hand rather than calling names" "people are so upset by a word that they lose focus of the point at hand", then the conversation just becomes about why we're not talking about the thing we were talking about.
Plus like, if someone's reading this who's worried about being ugly, they might feel a bit worse about themselves, and I don't think that's the kind of environment we want to cultivate. So, selfish cunt: certainly. Ugly cunt: bit far.
bit rude innit
I am glad you picked up on that part. It was the whole point.
She deserves it
Jesus dude. You have agreeable points of view and then just destroy and legitimacy and sway you may have had with the playground insults. Maybe try and class up your language and people will listen to you more often. I know it's the Internet but damn.
Cunt is perfectly acceptable in Australia and even the UK. We don't need to be so offended by words with little power.