• squiblet
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    So the average person was responsible for 8.2 and Swift did 8.293 in flights?

    • Skua
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      7011 months ago

      Swift’s flights were responsible for a thousand times more C02e than an average EU citizen. One has a comma, the other has a dot

      • squiblet
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        2811 months ago

        Aha, I see that now. Good thing I phrased it as a question.

        • @[email protected]
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          711 months ago

          She might do more economic activity but for who? Organizers? Herself? Scalpers? If she has that much money to be considered a billionaire maybe she could do something to cover her footprint. Plant some trees or donate to some organization that occupy with saving the planet.

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          11 months ago

          Fly commercial. Drive as much as possible. I assume she rents it out when she’s not actively using it. Stop doing that.

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      No, a single person is responsible for 8.2 tons and Swift’s JET ALONE did 8.293. That’s not counting all of the OTHER carbon footprint that swift undoubtedly has.

      Edit:uah, even worse. It’s 8 THOUSAND tons for her jet, and 8 tons for the regular person.

      • squiblet
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        611 months ago

        Right. Her jet alone released the same carbon as 1,000 people. Of course, she’s far from the only wealthy person doing this.

      • squiblet
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        2111 months ago

        Mistaking a comma for a decimal point isn’t really what I’d call ‘math’.

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          Also in some countries the comma, not the dot, is the decimal separator, so I can see how somebody from such a nation who has also been exposed to the use of the dot as decimal separator, might thinl they both can be used like that and mean the same and not be aware that in English-speaking countries the comma is never used as decimal separator.