Taxing private jets is a license fee for the rich to keep killing by climate change. Nothing less than banning them is a step towards a solution.

#TaxTheRich #PrivateJets #ClimateChange

#ClimateDiary

Climate activists disrupt Europe’s biggest private jet fair

Yeah! I wish i had been there. Full on support from me for highlighting the madness of #privatejets #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Inequality https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/23/climate-activists-private-jet-fair-greenpeace-stay-grounded-extinction-rebellion?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

James Cleverly’s use of £10,000 an hour Succession-style jet ‘ludicrous’

I know it’s getting a bit wearisome - there is just so muxh if all this - but we must keep on calling out this kind of behaviour by our leaders. Complete contempt for struggling citizens; complete contempt for planet. Tory politicians flying so muxh they need to rent extra #PrivateJets !

#GTTO #BanPrivateJets #Inequality https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/22/james-cleverly-use-of-private-jet-described-as-ludicrous-extravagance

"Elon Musk hops on one his four private planes about once every two days. In 2022 alone, the result was some 2,112 tons of carbon dioxide, or 132 times the average carbon footprint of an individual American."

Thanks to Luke Savage for powerfully sharing our latest findings in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/05/private-jets-billionaires-taxation-climate-change-emissions-inequality

#PrivateJets #Billionaires #Policy #News #Climate #Transportation

Private jet usage, which has risen 20% since the pandemic began, is another way "trust fund babies" disproportionately pollute while dodging taxes for it.

With bold policy, we can curb this harm.

Jane Thier lays out our new findings with Patriotic Millionaires in Fortune Magazine: https://fortune.com/2023/05/03/dynastic-wealthy-families-heir-pollution-private-jets-climate-change/

#Inequality #PrivateJets #Climate #News #Wealth #Policy #Billionaires

But you — you there — wash your clothes in cold water.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/private-jet-sales-likely-to-reach-highest-ever-level-this-year-report-says

#climate #PrivateJets

✈️💸 NEW: As fewer people hold more wealth, private jet purchases and travel have exploded—draining public aviation resources and driving pollution.

The U.S. needs to pass policies that disincentivize private jet use.

Those policies could include taxes, a “short hop” surcharge for ridiculously short flights, equity funds, and more found in our new report: https://ips-dc.org/report-high-flyers-2023/

#PrivateJets #Billionaires #Policy #News #Climate #Transportation

Ah yes, #ClimateCrisis anyone? "Private #jet sales likely to reach highest ever level this year, report says - Global fleet has more than doubled in two decades, with more private flights made last year than ever before.

Sales of private jets are likely to reach their highest ever level this year, placing an increasing burden on the planet, while many of the owners escape aviation taxes, and there are few curbs on the greenhouse gases emitted, according to a report.

The global fleet of private jets has more than doubled in the last two decades, and more private flights were made last year than ever before, according to a thinktank report published on Monday. Greenhouse gas emissions from private aviation have increased by nearly a quarter since the pandemic, when flying of all types nearly ceased in many countries for an extended period."

#Climate #GlobalWarming #CO2 #PrivateJets #Emissions #Klima #Klimakrise #GHG #GreenhouseGases

I presume Elon Musk would support a similar action in the US, as this is by far the best way to stop people tracking his jet

https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/ban-private-jets

#Greenpeace #PrivateJets #BanPrivateJets #UK #ElonJet #ElonMusk

Does anyhere know anything about European #tax regimes #taxbreak regarding #PrivateJets? Here too private jet use has soared in recent years #climatecrisis #UniteToSurvive

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/private-jet-flights-in-europe-soar-to-record-levels-stoking-climate-fears.html

"What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns out to be surprisingly easy."

This is really scandalous- something that very obviously needs addressing #PrivateJets #TaxBreaks #EatTheRich #UniteToSurvive #BanPrivateJets #Billionaires #Millionaires #ClimateCrisis

https://www.propublica.org/article/private-jets-yachts-wealthy-tax-deductions-irs-files?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

https://act.gp/42YqCpZ #privateJets #climateaction #climateDisaster

Ban Private Jets

The 1% of air travelers who use private jets cause half of all emissions by passenger flights

https://www.dw.com/en/the-global-jet-set-feels-the-heat-over-climate-change/a-65365655

#climate #ClimateEmergency #PrivateJets #Collapse #CrashCourse

@_L1vY_ @packbawky Wealth has become so concentrated among heirs of vast fortunes normal humanity has been made invisible. They don’t know us, they never even see us. #extremewealth #skydwellers #PrivateJets #wealth #taxtherich #inequality #piracy #robberbarons #wagetheft #labor #capitalism

RT @StayGroundedNet
In two days, French deputies will vote on a ban of #PrivateJets!

After the victory in Amsterdam, this could become the next level. Let’s make noise and show that we’re fed up with the jet-setting world destruction of the super-rich.
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How it started – how it’s going
#schiphol #PrivateJets

Next step

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RT @StayGroundedNet
In two days, French deputies will vote on a ban of #PrivateJets!

After the victory in Amsterdam, this could become the next level. Let’s make noise and show that we’re fed up with the jet-setting world destruction of the super-rich.
🧵1/3
https://twitter.com/StayGroundedNet/status/1643258357610950662

✈ UK is worst private jet polluter in Europe with flight every six minutes

Greenpeace branded many private jet journeys in the UK as “polluting and pointless”

#UK #News #Greenpeace #PrivateJets #Pollution #Europe

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/environment/uk-worst-private-jet-polluter-europe-flight-every-six-minutes-study-4085414

The wealthiest people in #Germany emit many thousand times more #CO2 than the poor and middle class. Of course this applies to all countries. In Germany, the breakdown is like this (in tonnes CO2 emitted annually per capita):
Richest 0.001% 11,700
Richest 0.01% 2,000
Richest 0.1% 405
Richest 1% 105
Richest 10% 33
Middle Class (next 40%) 12
Poorest 50% 6

https://taz.de/Ungleiche-Emissionen-in-Deutschland/!5922585/

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #FossilFuels #Emissions #PrivateJets

"The elites are fond of dangling a grass-coloured future in front of us – deodorized, disinfected and depolluted thanks to #biofuels and #ElectricCars. But to produce sufficient #biofuel we’d have to cover the earth with soy plantations, definitively deforesting the planet .. "

#MarcoDEramo

Jet-Setters

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/jet-setters

#SustainableTransport #GreenCapitalism #greenwashing #GreenTransition #Inequality #PrivateJets

#NewLeftReview