Irish Examiner view: 1% are taking rest of us on a short hop to disaster

Super-rich flaunting their use of climate-damaging private planes for unnecessary journeys

Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner took a 17-minute plane journey.

During one of the manic periods of the Covid-19 pandemic, the more paranoid members of what was known as the tinfoil-hat brigade (because they believed that donning such an item protected them from mind-influencing electromagnetic and telephone waves) had a theory about the reason for the virus.

It had been released into the world by ‘them’ to achieve an economic reset and divide society into the pampered and selfish rich and the rest of us, who would act as drones and worker bees.