The former secretary of state continued justifying his big-carbon-footprint choice of travel, saying he didn’t have time to sail the seas while clearly omitting the fact he had the option of flying commercial airlines that transport hundreds of passengers at a time.
Kerry's wife, a billionaire from inheriting the Heinz corporation money from her 1st husband (senator Heinz), owns a private charter jet company, Flying Squirrel LLC, and Kerry takes a Gulfstream private jet, everywhere, anytime he needs to go somplace that is an airport's distance away.
The Kerry family’s plane logged about 166 metric tons of carbon from February 9, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Fox News reported on Friday using the Paramount Business Jets emissions calculator.
News of the Kerry family jet’s high carbon emissions comes as Biden proposes a climate plan that could cost at least $1.7trillion. (but won't change the flying habits of private jet owners, and politicians)
Biden’s climate plan aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, which could cost millions of jobs and drop the country’s gross domestic product by trillions, according to the Heritage Foundation.
“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president.
“Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,” Kerry conceded.
The former secretary of state, now Biden’s climate envoy, acknowledged that it's impossible to bring the world’s top polluters to the table, including China, which produces 30 percent of the world’s carbon emissions.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-private-jet-use-climate-author-lomborg
https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/john-kerry-took-private-jet-to-iceland-for-climate-award/
https://nypost.com/2021/01/27/kerry-zero-emissions-wont-make-difference-in-climate-change/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13894985/private-jet-biden-climate-envoy-john-kerry-carbon/
Exactly the same here in Europe.
ReplyDeleteDoes he fly too when he goes to play golf?
ReplyDeleteGross Polluter? Your Dodge has been on the road for over 50 years. That's a 50+ year spread for the pollution & environmental damage "carbon" created from its construction. A new Tesla that is really well taken care of might manage 15 years (blind guess) to spread out the actual environmental costs for battery production & disposal. It is guessed that there are still well over 15,000 '69 chargers left in the world. How many Prius or Teslas will be around in at the end of the next 5 decades? (I chose to ignore the daily costs of operation for this gripe fest)
ReplyDeleteMaybe he could learn to Skype? Dipshit.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry too much about your Dodge, since you hardly drive it to make any pollution.
ReplyDeleteI saw in one article that Kerry paid tens of thousands of dollars to his wife's private jet company during his presidential campaign, which sounds questionable from a campaign finance viewpoint.
Kerry and his wife also have multiple homes and cars. During his 2004 campaign, he said "We have some SUVs. We have a Jeep. We have a couple of Chrysler minivans. We have a PT Cruiser up in Boston. I have an old Dodge 600 that I keep in the Senate . . . We also have a Chevy, a big Suburban." None of those sound very environmentally friendly either.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/john-kerry-property/
Before marriage into the Hersey fortune, he was a fraud. Now he is a fabulously wealthy fraud.
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I like this quote from Kary Mullis..."The future of the Earth has got nothing to do with the creatures that live clustered along the shores of its great bodies of water. We are just here for the ride, the ride is not smooth, the ride has never been smooth"
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