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Interesting. Outside of that, do any of these people do any other activities that offset the damage they do with their private jets?

Just wondering because this is such blatant clickbait material for an editorial, I won’t be surprised if an article about it is being written right now.

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Offsetting your damage doesn't change the fact that you are causing damage. What would be good is if these people stopped flying around the billionaire circuit on private jets _and_ paid their fair share of taxes but that's too much to ask these days.

I do agree having a separate list of who pays the most in taxes relative to wealth/income would be interesting but also obviously less accurat.

In some airlines you can pay some extra to offset the damage you do according to the CO2 you produced on said distance.

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