That's correct John, so you'll be ditching your gas-guzzling luxury cars any day now, right?
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Well, John has moved me, with his endless thumpin' on Lynch for being insufficiently green, and his Cassandra wailing about 12... no, ELEVEN years... left to avert our extinction.
So, I plugged the 3100 miles he just flew into a carbon footprint calculator and, oh look, John dumped 600 KILOS of CO2 into the atmosphere:
According to this Guardian lookup, 600 kilograms is more carbon than the average citizen of Puerto Rico generates in A YEAR. Puerto Rico or any of 44 other countries:
But, hold on. Go back to that first site and look at the top row of the form, the field labelled "Cabin Class." It defaults to "Economy." Can you see John flying with Economy plebs, when he has both Frank and the primary voters of Massachusetts to indulge him? Me, neither. Let's flip it to the more plausible "Premium" and see what happens:
Ouch, John's creature comforts come at a cost! Namely, double the carbon. So, now it's TWO Puerto Ricans cooking, bathing, riding the bus, whatever they do for a whole YEAR before they damage the environment as much as John blathering for 20 self-aggrandizing minutes in Frisco.
John, you are sooo White, so First World, so non-intersectional, it embarrasses me to even think about you.
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Even short-haul flights produce huge amounts of CO2, figures show
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