Kerry on private-jet use at Davos: "They offset"

Kerry spoke about why billionaires still opt to fly private while they lecture the rest of the world about their carbon footprint. He argued such elite billionaires are doing more than most to combat climate change, which redresses their emission effects.

“They buy offsets, they offset,” Kerry said. “And they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try to effect this transition … Aviation as a whole, all of aviation in the world is about 3% of our emissions in the world.”

[Nonsense. These same activists could fly commercial and therefore not add any emissions at all to the environment. They choose comfort over their cause, and then try buying indulgences in order to salvage their virtue. — Ed]