Celebrities, corporations, politicians need to end the climate virtue-signalling 

We’ve seen it time and time again. Lectures on climate change, talking about the need to reduce our carbon footprint, and to do the small things. We are told that everything we do in our lives needs to take into account the fact that we need to save the planet. 

But the people who lecture us, the politicians, celebrities, and pundits, are the ones that need to be held accountable.

There’s a new trend on social media that exposes celebrities’ carbon emissions. The Twitter account Celebrity Jets (@celebjets) tracks celebrities and their jet usage, calculating how many tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) they produce in the process. The average person in the world produces roughly four tonnes of CO2 in a year. According to the Celebrity Jets account, a recent flight of Harrison Ford’s jet produced around six tonnes of CO2 in just over two hours. 

In 2022, Taylor Swift’s plane flew 170 times in just 200 days, emitting over an estimated 1 000 times the amount of carbon pollution that the average person would emit in an entire year. Kylie Jenner infamously used her plane to fly for 17 minutes, rather than drive for 40 minutes, which would produce a fraction of the carbon emissions.

These so-called sustainability and climate advocates, who use their platforms to preach the dangers of global warming and the…