286,000 km by private jet

Taylor Swift had a 2023 full of triumphs in many aspects of her life, and has become much more than just a music star. At 34 years old, the Nashville singer has broken several records and not all of them in the musical field.

Swift accumulates more than 300 million plays on Spotify of her latest work ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ and it is already the best-selling album of the decade with 6.6 million physical copies sold worldwide, which is double merit.

The Eras Tour, a tour of records…and not all of them are positive

His tour The Eras Tour It has had an enormous impact on the GDP of the cities it visited due to its enormous power of congregation, injecting some 5,000 million into the US economy. Part of the profits from that tour have made Taylor Swift a billionaire, with her being one of the few artists who has achieved it exclusively through her work as a performer and not through parallel businesses.

However, her tour has also given her another record of which she should not be proud: being the personality with the largest carbon footprint on the planet thanks to her continuous travel on her two private jets during 2023.

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

Swift, along with Elon Musk and the luxury magnate Bernard Arnault, are part of the combative group of millionaires who have sued on several occasions X users and accounts that track the flights of private jets of personalities. The millionaires allege that it violates their privacy and security, while users demand their freedom to use public air traffic data.

7.2 trips around the world and a huge carbon footprint under the carpet

According to data collected by Ground Controlthe two private jets registered by Swift would have traveled 286,500 kilometers in 2023, which is equivalent to 7.2 trips around the world in more than a hundred trips. Most of the recorded trips had Nashville as their departure or destination point, where the interpreter’s family resides, although trips to New York and Los Angeles are very frequent.

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

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

The recorded flights are those belonging to the 2009 Dassault Falcon 7X with tail code N621MM and the 1994 Dassault Falcon 900 with code N898TS (TS for Taylor Swift and 898 for her date of birth). Precisely, the artist sold the latter in February, according to what she published The confidential.

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

As we already told you here, carbon credits are the compensation method for polluting activities. Whoever pollutes buys a certain amount of these credits so that an external company “captures” that CO2 from the atmosphere and processes it.

The problem is that, since the carbon credit market is opaque and unregulated, we cannot know how much Taylor Swift has had to pay for the pollution emitted by her planes.

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