Environmentalists attack Taylor Swift over her private jet emissions

Eco-alarmists roar against singer Taylor Swift for not being sustainable. Swift would have emitted a large amount of CO2 in her air transport. The environmentalists consider this to be an environmentally unfriendly attitude.

The company Yard (which defines itself as a sustainable marketing agency) has conducted a research with data from Celebrity Jets, a twitter account that tracks flights of artists. According to its methodology, Yard compares the CO2 emissions of the general population with the CO2 of each celebrity. The data is based on the number of flights each star has taken so far, the average duration of their flights, the miles and the total CO2 only since the beginning of the year.

A representative for Swift came to her defense and said that she did not take the 170 flights and that she loaned the jet to others:

Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.

Taylor Swift's carbon footprint

Taylor Swift's plane flew 170 times this year for an average of 80 minutes. According to this report, Swift has accumulated 22,923 minutes in the air, for a total time of approximately 16 days. Her total emissions from those trips are estimated at 8,293 tons, which is 1,000 times more than the average American's annual emissions total (7 tons). Taylor's shortest flight on record in 2022 was just 36 minutes, flying from Missouri to Nashville, and he has flown more than 70 times this year, averaging 80 minutes.

Swift's carbon footprint was published by relevant music media such as Rolling Stone magazine. The data comes from the Twitter account Celebrity Jets, which monitors more than 1,500 artist flights. According to their methodology they compare the CO2 emissions of the general population with the CO2 of each celebrity. The data is based on the number of flights each star has taken so far, the average duration of their flights, the miles and the total CO2 emitted since the beginning of the year.

Kylie Jenner, harshly criticized

Kylie Jenner was another celebrity who was controversial for taking a few-minute flights in her private plane. Jenner argued that she wanted to avoid traffic on a trip that would take less than an hour by car. That was what generated disjunctions among her followers and detractors on social networks. Despite the controversy, Kylie does not make the Yard's list. The one who does is Travis Scott, her partner and father of her children, who is in tenth place, with just over 3,000 tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere so far this year.

Yard data reveals that on average, celebrities criticized by Celebrity Jets emit an average of 3,376.64 tons of CO2 emissions with the use of their private jet. This means they emit 482.37 times more than the average person. They also conclude that the average flight time was only 71.77 minutes with an average of 66.92 miles flown per flight.