Taylor Swift, private jets and climate change

Taylor Swift, private jets and climate change
Taylor Swift claims to have bought twice as many carbon credits as she needs. (Image: Getty)
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By Sophie Alexander, with assistance from Ben Elgin, Akshat Rathi and Eric RostonTaylor Swift will be back on stage next month for the European leg of her wildly successful Eras tour, racking up miles as her private jet carries her from Paris to Stockholm to Lisbon.To counter her emissions, the recently minted billionaire is doing the same thing as longtime ultra-rich jetsetters like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates: buying carbon offsets.Swift, according to her publicist Tree Paine, bought more than double the credits needed to offset her t...

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