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Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action Against Social Media Account That Tracks Her Private Jet (www.billboard.com)

submitted 9 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech

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I'm a huge swiftie. That's not a lie. However Taylor's number one issue in my book is her absolute non-caring for the damage she's done to the planet.

This isn't a coincidence. It's not about stalking. Last week she was caught taking a 40 minute flight, releasing more carbon by herself then most of us do in an entire year.

I love Taylor, but it's shameful that she continues to do this. When she dated Joe the tracker showed she flew back and forth between England and New York on average 3 times a week. A week.

And she doesn't even bother to at least buy offsets or something. She could buy massive swaths of rainforest to preserve to make up for it and it'd barely make a dent. She could replant entire forests.

I love Taylor, but I'm ashamed she's hurting the planet so much without seemingly a care - and now trying to sue the people who expose her for it.

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[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.run 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

According to this, she is using carbon offsets - though I have no idea what percent of her footprint is being offset: https://carboncredits.com/taylor-swift-controversy-ahead-of-super-bowl-lviii/

Edit: this is moreso in response to the environmental concerns, it's still silly she's trying to sue someone aggregating public data. I really hope the court throws this out.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

So far this is all I’ve actually found. Like your article, it says nothing about the actual offsets.

Swift’s publicist told The Associated Press that “Taylor purchased more than double the carbon credits needed to offset all tour travel” before her tour began, but did not provide any details.

Source.

It continues with a question of the efficacy

Offsets are still the Wild West of climate change and have been riddled with fraud, failed projects, and dubious effectiveness,” said Jonathan Foley, executive director of Project Drawdown, a group that publicizes climate solutions. “Planting trees, for example, might work — or not — depending on how the forests are managed in the long run.”

More importantly, we have to ask ourselves whether or not it’s okay for someone to do this. Swift is still consuming a fuckton of a nonrenewable resource and still pushing a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that would not be there if she didn’t use and share a private jet. Just because she also does some nice things does not undo the harm she’s causing. imo that’s like saying, “It’s okay for me to only use single use plastic packaging because I regularly clean a highway and always put the bottles I pick up in the recycling.”