Taylor Swift had a 2023 full of victories in many areas of her life and became much more than a music star. The 34-year-old Nashville singer has broken many records, and not all of them are in the music field.

Swift has amassed over 300 million streams of her latest work on Spotify’Chamber of Tortured Poets and it’s already the best-selling album of the decade, with 6.6 million physical copies sold worldwide, which is double-dealing.

The Eras Tour is a tour de force of records… and not all of them are positive

his tour Eras Tour Because of his immense congregational power, he had a tremendous impact on the GDP of the cities he visited, contributing approximately $5,000 million to the US economy. Some of the profits from this tour made Taylor Swift a billionaire; He became one of the few artists who achieved this not with parallel works, but only with his work as a performer.

But this tour earned him another record that he shouldn’t be proud of: becoming the person with the largest carbon footprint on the planet by traveling non-stop on his two private jets throughout 2023.

In a video created by ground controlA platform responsible for collecting information about the flights of Taylor Swift or Elon Musk’s private planes, all of the singer’s flights in 2023, as well as the kilometers traveled and the amount of tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere, are compiled in less than two minutes. the artist was released into the atmosphere.

Swift, along with Elon Musk and luxury mogul Bernard Arnault, is part of a combative group of millionaires who have on various occasions sued X users and accounts that track the flights of private jets belonging to individuals. Millionaires claim this 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 rug

According to the data collected ground controlTwo private jets registered by Swift Traveled 286,500 kilometers in 2023This is equivalent to 7.2 trips around the world over a hundred trips. Although trips to New York and Los Angeles were very frequent, most recorded trips had as their point of departure or destination Nashville, where the translator’s family resided.

It is worth noting that although the jets are registered in his name, the artist still does not have the ability to be everywhere, so some of these flights are not made by him, but by members of his team or people close to him. .

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

The recorded flights are of a 2009 Dassault Falcon 7X with tail code N621MM and a 1994 Dassault Falcon 900 with tail code N898TS (TS for Taylor Swift and 898 for date of birth). The artist sold the latter in February as it was released. Hidden.

Taylor Swift’s Falcons spent 364 hours in the air in 2023, releasing 1,216 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, according to data from 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 double the carbon emitted by his two planes.

As we said here before, carbon credits are a compensation method for polluting activities. The polluter buys a certain amount of these credits so that an external company “captures” and processes CO2 from the atmosphere.

The problem is that because the carbon credit market is opaque and unregulated, we don’t know how much Taylor Swift had to pay for the pollution her planes emit.

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