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Private jets are irrelevant. There aren’t enough to even matter.

A hundred years of burning coal. Now that will cause some real global warming.

Hard to believe we burn more coal now than ever.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/coal-consumption-hit-an-all-...

Someone should do the math. If we had to guess, is 1 year of coal equivalent to 100 years of all of aviation?

Guess who owns the companies that bought the governments that subsidize coal production for the last century and a half? These hand wavy arguments about scale ignore the fact that the superrich and their ability to capture governance and policy are the whole problem. Put a real carbon tax on their consumption and they will not "reflect on their choices" but could become more supportive of energy policies that don't doom their customers and themselves.

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