[lwouis]

I think it's fair to say that most people that have to take a car to work are stuck in the system, and that it would be hard or impossible to change that (city center rent being too high, no jobs outside the mega-cities, etc).

However for the rich, options are plentiful. Taylor swift has really every options available to her. She could stop working all together. She's set for life already. She could work only on local concerts. She could do a "slow" world tour and take the boat to do it, as a symbol. She doesn't have to fly to LA for a fun diner with a celebrity friend. Etc etc.

Millionaires and billionaires definitely can decide what they want to do. They don't answer for anyone for food and shelter. They make their own rules. In that sense, i think it's fair for the rest of us to judge them hard for a lavish lifestyle that inspires the masses, and really goes against humanity's survival.

[avgcorrection]

Swift could also use her time and energy to focus on what policies on a national scale can help lower emissions, and figure out what it would take for us to make political change towards a sustainable first-world lifestyle (political as in: a movement to make it feasible to live closer to work, to make mass transit better… not individual nonsense microchoices). I’ll judge her more harshly for that.

[lwouis]

I don't think she has the baggage to think about such complex topics. She's a singer. I think it's too much to expect her to rethink our society model. On the other hand, i think as an ordinary citizen, she knows that private jets pollute a lot. And that she can do something about easily.