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The politics of the hyper-polluting private transport used by the world’s super-rich is hotting up

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par Rowland Atkinson, Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield

While millions of people make the effort to sort their recycling, buy fewer clothes and generally make greener choices, the world’s wealthiest can emit the same amount of carbon as the average person does in a year by going on holiday just once.

Among the many things worrying the climate-conscious is the question of the carbon-intensive movements of the super-rich – classed as those with more than US$30 million (£23 million) in disposable assets. This phenomenon, characterised by the use of private jets,…

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