But you know what it does NOT make difficult? Simple math:You are probably wrong about Kerry.As far as John Kerry, he doesn't own a private jet nor fly on them:
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says it's a 'stupid' lie that he regularly takes private jets around the world
The grilling by House Republicans drew gasps when Rep. Scott Perry accused Kerry and climate scientists of "grifting" over a "problem that doesn't exist."fortune.com
But guess who does own private jets, plural, i.e. multiple private jets? Elon Musk:
Elon Musk's private jets took 441 flights this year
It isn't easy running six companies, but Elon Musk's fleet of private jets certainly helps.www.businessinsider.com
Last year, there were 441 flights on his jets. That's more than days in the year.
Is he trying to be that rich guy from Contact?
But to be fair about this, our totally shit media makes getting to the bottom of even simple facts like whether or not someone actually owns a jet extremely difficult.
John Kerry's family private jet emitted over 300 metric tons of carbon since Biden took office
A private jet owned by the wife of John Kerry, who President Biden made climate envoy in January 2021, has emitted a whopping 715,886 pounds of carbon dioxide since Biden took office.www.foxnews.com
Musk 441 flights, The billionaire's jets have emitted an estimated 5,159 metric tons of CO2 over the past year,
Kerry “whopping” 715,886 pounds = 324.7 metric tons of CO2 over the past year
You … you take the number of days given for Musk flights, and compare it to the “whopping” pounds (POUNDS!!!!) of CO2 generated by Kerry. And you appear to think, Well, look how big 715,000 is compared to 441 !!1!1!!one!
But A quick search of Musks flight logs shows Musk flew much much more “In 2023, the aircraft were in flight for more than 1,161 hours, equivalent to over 48 days worth of time spent in the air, according to JetSpy data.” Including “Musk's jets also took some 11 to 15-minute flights between airports in Hawthorne and Los Angeles in the spring. The airports are located less than 10 miles apart,” (a 10 mile jet flight!!). which resulted in an estimated 5,159 metric tons of CO2 over the past year.
It is trivially easy to use math and the internet to convert Kerry’s wife’s jet’s emission “pounds” into “metric tons” to compare to Musk’s.
Leaving you with:
Musk = 5,159 metric tons of CO2 over the past year,
Kerry “whopping” = 324.7 metric tons of CO2 over the past year
How does this affect your opinion of Musk versus Kerry, RVonse?
To me it says Musk is carelessly destroying the planet and he is responsible for that, and you are, too, if you excuse it to throw shade at Kerry.
NO ONE NEEDS TO GO TO MARS WHILE THE PLANET IS CRUMBLING!!!
We absolutely can use the rocket launching argument, because it is spectacularly useless to fly to space if you destroy the planet doing it.
We don’t even need Starlink that badly - not enought to destroy the planet. We were operating badly-but-survivably on high orbit satellite and dial-up before he came along.
HE HAS NO NEED TO RUN THREE COMPANIES IF IT DESTROYS THE PLANET TO DO SO.
He can go pack groceries for all I care. He doesn’t get to steal my children’s planet just because you think rich is sexy.
Yes, there were lots of articles about how they should have done this better, and I agree they should have carpooled better. But remember it was not a climate summit, it was an economic summit. So your main charge of hypocrisy falls absolutely flat.
Wait, you just told us he was doing the electric cars thing for the environment. For all of us!!!1!!
Are you abandoning that line of thought now?
The open capital market will kill us all.
Freedom is not worth extinction.
And hypocrisy is NOT more evil than mass destruction.
