(Headline USA) Filmmaker and climate activist Steven Spielberg has spent more than $100,000 on fuel for his private jet over the last two months, according to a flight tracking database.
Since June 23, Spielberg has burned through $116,159 in jet fuel for the 16 trips he’s taken. That means he’s emitted at least 179 tons of carbon dioxide in that time period, data from ADS-B Exchange shows, which is roughly 11 times as much as the average U.S. consumer, reported the New York Post.
The report comes despite Spielberg’s attempts to chide the public into embracing environmentalism.
“I’m terrified of [global warming],” Spielberg said in 2018.
“Global warming is a scientific reality. It’s not a political trick. It’s a true piece of real, measurable, quantifiable science,” he continued. “People have to come around to believing that this is — we are going to have to have a kind of confrontation with destiny unless we do something about it today.”
He added that “everybody has to be held responsible” for their role in climate change, and ripped those who “go blithely through life” without caring about the environment.
“You know when you’re not mindful of something that could pose a danger to your children and grandchildren?” Spielberg remarked. “Then you just go blithely through life with aerosol cans and doing all sorts of things that are depleting the ozone.”
Spielberg’s trips this summer included a 3,589-mile trip from Westhampton, New York, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, which emitted 32 tons of carbon dioxide. His private jet then traveled to Rotterdam, Netherlands, before returning to Westhampton, emitting an additional 38 tons of carbon.
He also went back and forth between California and Westhampton, and New Jersey and Westhampton. Just last week, he traveled from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, to Teterboro, New Jersey, on his private jet.
