Bill Gates owns 4 private jets:
2 Gulfstream G650ERs
2 Bombardier Challenger 350s
Is there really any justification for not only flying private, but for owning multiple private jets, especially for someone as tuned into the climate crisis as Bill Gates?
Keep reading to hear Gates’ excuse for traveling via private jet, to learn more about the planes he owns, and exactly why flying private is so environmentally-unfriendly.
Each one of them emits more carbon in a single flight than your car in your entire lifetime.
In February 2023, Microsoft founder Bill Gates appeared in an in-depth interview segment for The BBC, along with journalist Amol Rajan.
“What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner, but you also travel around the world on a private jet, you’re a hypocrite?” Rajan bluntly asked Gates.
“Well, I buy the gold standard of funding Climeworks to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint,” Gates responded.
“And I spend billions of dollars on on climate innovation.
So you know, should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?”
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