Oxfam's research makes it painfully clear: the extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fueling inequality, hunger and - make no mistake - threatening lives.
Private jets, one of the most visible and publicized ways the ultra-rich get around, are significant polluters but still pale in comparison to the impact of their other indulgences.
Oxfam was able to identify private jets belonging to 23 of the billionaires... and found that they flew an average of 184 times in a 12-month period, spending around 425 hours in the air.
Musk's fleet of two (known) private jets responsible for 5,497 tons of CO2 over the course of a year, equivalent to 834 years of emissions from the average person.
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