A closer look
Ultra-wealthy individuals routinely take flights lasting less than fifteen minutes in luxury aircraft, burning more fossil fuels in a single weekend than the average citizen uses in an entire year; while the rest of the world is being guilt-tripped into using soggy paper straws and separating their recycling, billionaires are treating aviation like an airborne taxi service just to avoid highway traffic, creating a deep, agonizing irony when watching celebrities fly across town to attend climate summits while leaving a carbon footprint the size of a small developing nation
