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AndrekinKimawa t1_je4248j wrote

Well... If they have a busy schedule, that makes sense. Should they walk? And it wasn't like everyone took own jet it was ride-sharing.

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Electricbell20 t1_je4p3vv wrote

They can easily plan better to allow commercial flights, better yet they could plan not to use air travel at all or at least minimise it.

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Darhhaall t1_je545f6 wrote

No.

"The decision to travel to Egypt by private jet was made after no commercial flights were available to return Michel to Brussels in time for duties at the European Parliament,"

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Ok-Durian5594 t1_je5xejt wrote

No, they shouldn't travel at all. It's XXI century. We have fast Internet and such meeting can be done online.

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PanemEtMeditationes t1_je45xoy wrote

Yeah, that makes sense for the typical hypocrite politician. It's not that we can pretend they would plan their travels in advance.

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True-Stranger362 t1_je40hpq wrote

Jetpooling. It's like carpooling, but for the global elites.

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autotldr t1_je40wif wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> The EU's joint presidents flew to last year's U.N. climate talks in Egypt aboard a private jet, according to data seen by POLITICO that revealed heavy use of private flights by European Council President Charles Michel.

> That means during the five-hour return flight to Sharm El-Sheikh, Michel and von der Leyen's jet may have emitted roughly 20 tons of CO2 - the average EU citizen emits around 7 tons over the course of a year.

> The decision to travel to Egypt by private jet was made after no commercial flights were available to return Michel to Brussels in time for duties at the European Parliament, his spokesperson Barend Leyts told POLITICO. Staff also explored the option of flying aboard Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's plane, but it was scheduled to return before Michel's work at COP27 would be completed.

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Alashion t1_je430yl wrote

This is dumb, private jet flights are the tiniest fraction of global emissions it's merely a red herring.

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Confident-Dog-3309 t1_je4qury wrote

Maybe because many people dont own private jets , if you going to talk about fighting the climate change when your livestyle is way worse compared to the normal person why is he going say we need to change when he doesnt ? Just a noice hypocrisy

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Erik1801 t1_je66gkb wrote

This is like the fucking 9gag posts that point out all the World Leaders flew to the Climate Conference.

So what ? This is just another part of "Solving climate change is YOUR responsibility, not the one of Industry".

Which it isnt. You can live as Green as possible, not own a Car, never fly, only eat grass and drink River water (i.e be poor) and BP will generate all the Co2 you would have created in your lifetime in 2 seconds.

This whole personal responsibility shit is blown way out of proportion.

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headedtojail t1_je6z3qg wrote

Ah yes, this old nugget again.

Politicians flying private is not the problem this planet has. Is it somewhat tone deaf? Maybe. But pointing this out EVERY DAMN TIME is getting very old...

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fIreballchamp t1_je7w20j wrote

Yeah, we should stop criticizing our glorious dear leaders, period. Zero accountability, it's okay, they ignored us the last time.

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8ew8135 t1_je5578u wrote

Turn off your phone if you’re worried that much about every little scrap of energy.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself.

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