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Saturday, 10 February 2024

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Even Swifties are struggling to defend Taylor’s private jet use

Among the many updates this week on Taylor Swift – Grammy record-breaker, cultural bellwether, billionaire pop star and NFL superfan – is the revelation that she recently offloaded one of her two private jets.

The move to reduce her jumbo-sized carbon footprint was dented, however, when it coincided with news that the singer had brought the heft of her mighty legal team down upon a college student who uses government data and automated bots to track the planet-heating emissions from these private jets, then shares that information on social media.

4 comments:

Sam Vega said...

To be fair, swifts are renowned for long-distance flight. Africa to Northern Europe and back, every year.

A K Haart said...

Sam - good point, it would cruel to ground them for political reasons.

dearieme said...

Are you saying her private jets are fan jets? I had assumed that all modern jet aircraft use fan jets.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - in a sense they are, the fans paid for them.