52 flights put Lionel Messi in trouble under accusations of destroying the planet

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/09/04

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - Argentine star Lionel Messi, the French star of Paris Saint-Germain, was subjected to accusations that amounted to accusing him of destroying the planet and contributing to the climate change crisis, due to exaggerated private flights. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://www.arrajol.com/sites/default/files/styles/800x533/public/2018/1... style="width: 800px; height: 533px;" /></p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>(Messi&#39;s private jet)</strong></h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Like many stars, Messi owns a private plane that he uses to take some flights on a regular basis, which was criticized by the &quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/laviondebernard/status/1565237213495017472?ref_src=t... de Bernard</a> &quot; account on the social networking site &quot;Twitter&quot;.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The French calculation calculates the number of flights that celebrities take on their private planes, in order to determine the extent of the impact on the planet.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Attac revealed that Messi&#39;s plane flew 52 flights (368 hours of flight) from June to August, resulting in 1,502 tons of carbon dioxide.</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>The organization explained that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the plane is equivalent to the carbon footprint of an ordinary French person in 150 years.</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The organization launched a sharp attack on Messi, describing him as: &quot;of the very rich, who destroy the planet&quot;, because of his crude dependence on the private plane in this number of flights.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Strangely enough, the FlightAware website, which is concerned with flight news, confirmed that Messi&#39;s plane has made more than 60 flights, not just 52, during the last two months.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Paris Saint-Germain star made 3 trips in just 48 hours with his private plane, according to what was announced by the &quot;Lavion de Bernard&quot; account.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> During the last two months, Messi visited his hometown of Rosario, Barcelona, ​​Fort Lauderable near Miami, Sao Paulo, Tenerife and Valencia to spend the summer vacation.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Messi also leased his private plane to Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, in February 2021, for $160,000, to use on an official trip to Mexico.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In early August, Luis Suarez, Messi&#39;s former Barcelona teammate and close friend, used the plane to go to Montevideo and sign for Nacional.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong>The accusations did not affect Messi alone.</strong></span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:#FF0000;"><strong>Singer Taylor Swift tops the list of celebrities who emit carbon dioxide</strong></span> </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://www.alkhaleej.ae/sites/default/files/styles/d10_standard/public/... style="width: 900px; height: 507px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Singer Taylor Swift topped the list of a recent study of celebrities whose private jets were said to produce large amounts of carbon dioxide.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The UK-based sustainable marketing company Yard revealed that the pop star&#39;s jet flew 170 times between January 1 and July 19, the aircraft&#39;s total flight emissions were 8,293.54 tons of carbon, which is 1184.8 times more than the average person&#39;s total annual emissions.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A Swift spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter, &quot;Taylor&#39;s plane is regularly loaned out to other individuals, and the accounting for most or all of these flights is incorrect.&quot;</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Yard used data from the Twitter Celeb Jets account, which tracks celebrity private jet flights, aggregated flight data for each star from the start of 2022 and included number of flights, average flight times, miles and total CO2 emissions. carbon dioxide.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Other musicians on the top ten list include Jay-Z (No. 3), Blake Shelton (No. 5) and Travis Scott (No. 10).</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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