their perspective) — and it wasn’t pretty. Private jets, for example, produced 56 million tons of CO2 in 2014, placing these flights 56th in terms of emissions, just after Peru,…ge Monbiot argues that “the very wealthy, almost as a matter of definition, are committing ecocide.” One paper mapped out the impacts of superyachts, superhomes, luxury cars, and private jets — status symbols of the 1% (or necessities, perhaps, from their perspective) — and it wasn’t pretty. Private jets, for example, produced 56 million tons of CO2 in 2014, placing these flights 56th in terms of emissions, just after Peru, if they were a country.
