Miles & More: Which celebrities are the biggest air polluters?

Miles & More: Which celebrities are the biggest air polluters? – freenet.de

Taylor Swift has been touring the world for a year and a half with her ‘Eras’ tour. At the same time, the singer has started a new relationship and wants to see her boyfriend, football star Travis Kelce, as often as possible. You have to be mobile, and TayTay jumps on planes like others jump on the subway on the way to work. Her masterpiece: 20,000 miles in less than two weeks, when she flew from the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles to Tokyo to give a concert there.

From Tokyo, she returned to Las Vegas in the USA immediately after the encore, where she successfully cheered Travis and his Kansas City Chiefs on to a Super Bowl win before jetting off to Melbourne, Australia, to continue her tour. Last year, Taylor took off so often that by the end of the year she had a total of 178,000 miles on the clock. Between 2023 and 2024, her flights will have emitted more than 1,100 tons of CO2.

Crazy numbers, but Taylor is not even the leader. What’s more, she is not even in the top 10 among the big superstars when it comes to her carbon footprint! Her management also said that she bought twice as many carbon credits as necessary: the money will be used to finance projects that counteract climate change.

The top polluter is rapper Pitbull, who took off 396 times between 2023 and 2024 and released 4,550 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Half a family is also in the top 10. Kim Kardashian is one of the worst environmental offenders. The reality queen took a plane 210 times, including one trip between two Californian airports that would have taken 45 minutes by car. The result: 3,200 tons of CO2.

Her half-sister Kylie Jenner also doesn’t hesitate for long and takes every opportunity to board her luxury plane with two bathrooms and a fully equipped entertainment center. 1,870 tons of CO2 is the price the environment pays.

Kylie’s ex, rapper Travis Scott, however, has a lot more: on 203 flights he emitted 3,760 tons of CO2 into the air. The only place where the musician was recently slowed down was in Hamburg: when he wanted to take off late in his jet after a concert in the Hanseatic city, the notorious night flight ban in the metropolis put a stop to his plans. There are no exceptions for superstars in Hamburg, so Travis had to stay on the ground. The environment breathed a sigh of relief until the next morning.

Rappers obviously like to fly, and Drake is also in the top five. He flew 203 times and released 2,515 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and also…

…Jay-Z and Beyoncé are not exactly Sunday flyers with their jet: With their 213 flights and 2,359 tons of CO2, the glamour couple is only just behind…

…boxer Floyd Mayweather, who only took 191 flights, but flew further and was responsible for over 100 tons more CO2 than Jay-Z and Beyoncé. In fairness, however, it must be added that the stars’ jets are often loaned out to others, so the celebrities don’t always sit in them themselves. The environment probably doesn’t care.