286,000 km by private jet

• The successful Eras Tour made Taylor Swift a billionaire, but left a large carbon footprint in the atmosphere.

• In 2023, private Swift jets spent the equivalent of 16 days in flight.

Taylor Swift’s 2023 has been full of triumphs in many aspects of her life, and she has become much more than just a music star. At 34 years old, the Nashville singer has broken several records, not all in the music industry.

Swift has racked up more than 300 million streams of her latest work on Spotify.Department of Martyred Poets” and it’s already the best-selling album of the decade, with 6.6 million physical copies sold worldwide, which is a double achievement.

Eras Tour, record tour… and not all of them are positive

His tour Eras Tour He had a huge impact on the GDP of the cities he visited through his enormous congregational power, contributing approximately $5 billion to the US economy. Part of the profits from this tour made Taylor Swift a billionaire, one of the few artists who achieved this solely through her performing work and not through a side business.

However, her tour also brought her another record that she shouldn’t be proud of: becoming the person with the largest carbon footprint on the planet thanks to her constant travel on her two private jets throughout 2023.

In a video created by Ground controlplatform, which is responsible for collecting information about the flights of Taylor Swift or Elon Musk’s private jets, all the singer’s flights in 2023 are collected in just under two minutes, as well as the kilometers traveled and the tons of CO2 that the artist released into the atmosphere.

Swift, along with Elon Musk and luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault, are part of a militant group of millionaires who have sued several times against X users and accounts that track individuals’ private jet flights. Millionaires argue it violates their privacy and security, while users demand freedom to use publicly available air traffic data.

7.2 round-the-world trips and a huge carbon footprint under the rug

According to data collected Ground controltwo private jets registered by Swift would have traveled 286,500 kilometers in 2023, which is equivalent to 7.2 trips around the world in over a hundred trips. The origin or destination of most recorded trips was Nashville, where the translator’s family resides, although trips to New York and Los Angeles are very frequent.

It should be noted that, although the planes are registered in her name, the artist still does not have the gift of omnipresence, so some of the flights were not made by her personally, but by members of her team or people close to her. .

On the other hand, private jet owners typically rent or lend their planes to other millionaires, so this data does not indicate that Taylor Swift was on board all the flights their private jets took.

The recorded flights are of a 2009 Dassault Falcon 7X code N621MM and a 1994 Dassault Falcon 900 code N898TS (TS for Taylor Swift and 898 for her date of birth). It was the last artist who sold in February, as published Confidentially.

Taylor Swift’s Falcons spent 364 hours in the air and emitted 1,216 tons of CO2 in 2023, according to data released by aviation tracker JetSpy Associated Press. This is equivalent to the average annual emissions of 81 US households. To offset this carbon footprint, the artist had to purchase 2,433 carbon credits to cover more than twice the carbon emissions of her two planes.

As we’ve told you here, carbon credits are a method of compensating for polluting activities. The polluter buys a certain amount of these credits and has an outside company “capture” this CO2 from the atmosphere and recycle it.

The problem is that because the carbon credit market is opaque and unregulated, we have no way of knowing how much Taylor Swift had to pay for the pollution emitted by her planes.

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