Chris Packham urges Taylor Swift fans to protest against her private jet usage

OHMYGOSSIP — Chris Packham has urged Taylor Swift fans to protest against the singer’s use of private jets.
The pop star sensation, 34, is currently embarking on the UK leg of her ‘Eras Tour’, and the 63-year-old environmentalist has now called on Swifties to bring banners that shame Taylor for travelling the world in her jet-for-one.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, he said: “I think Taylor Swift has enormous power. She’s speaking to an audience which will have significant problems in their lives due to climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.
“And she ought to be at the forefront of trying to help their future to become more secure and sustainable. What a missed opportunity.
“You should actually say, ‘Do you know what, thank you for pointing that out. I’m going to switch to flying on commercial airliners’.
“We all accept she has to travel the globe – we’re not saying stop touring. We’re saying do it in the most environmentally friendly way that you possibly can.
“Wouldn’t it be great if all those 16-year-olds turned up at the concert with banners saying, ‘Drop your private jets’?”
The ‘Springwatch’ presenter isn’t the only person who hit out against ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ hitmaker for not flying commercially, as programmer Jack Sweeney had publicly tracked Taylor and her travel habits on social media .
After he calculated and shared the singer had flown 178,000 miles privately last year, Taylor’s team sent Jack a cease-and-desist letter.
Reflecting on the situation, Chris lamented over the chart-topper’s threats to sue the entrepreneur, and labelled her use of private jets “absurd”.
He said: “We know that private jets are the single greatest contributor when it comes to jet aviation fuel and the least efficient because they’re carrying one person. And so he called her out and she ­threatened to sue him.
“And I just thought, ‘You really missed the trick there, Taylor.’
“What you should have said is, ‘You’re right, times have moved on. I’ve got to change my practice. I’m going to sell my private jets’.
“And that would have been such a powerful thing for her to say to an audience. And I mean, her audience is primarily a young ­audience, isn’t it?
“I mean, you can’t say she’s responsible for climate breakdown. But she’s an icon. And as a consequence of that, she should be leading.”

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