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I believe that anyone that travels a lot on airliners will easily surpass this so nothing to be smug about for a lot of people.

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It really wouldn’t. I tried a few calculators and flying Auckland to London return (you can’t fly that much further) comes out somewhere around 3000kgs.

To get to the amount Bezos uses (maybe 75 tonnes, but likely 250-1000 tonnes), that one hell of a lot of flying.

https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/loyaltymodule/form/carbon-em...

https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/P...

To get the number they are cutting for Bezos, they are including the manufacturing and shipping and logistics of the flight.

If you add all that in to the carbon cost of a plane's first flight as well, I wouldn't be surprised to find the gap narrower that one might expect.

The carbon cost of the plane should be divided by the number of it's many users. So it is overall, minute, compared to if we do the same division for Bezo's craft.

So the solution clearly is for more people to fly on the spacecraft! /s

You will have to travel a lot more, over a really long period of time, to get to the 75ton/250ton numbers. Technically, anybody who eats hamburgers can eat enough burgers to hit that number - the point is that JB did that for a small, largely unnecessary spaceflight.

Hamburgers are just as small and unnecessary.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/boeing-ceo-80-percent-of-peo...

"A lot of people" is a bit of a stretch.

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