Over the course of her career, Taylor Swift has broken records with her music. She has the most No. 1 albums by a woman in history, the most streamed album in a single day in Spotify history and the record for the most attended concert by a female artist in U.S. history according to Billboard Magazine. Among these records broken by Swift, she has earned the spot for the celebrity with the highest amount of carbon pollution in the atmosphere.

After news headlines came out about the world renown singer and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce’s relationship, Swift was in attendance at most of his football games this past season. She took 12 flights in the past three months to attend his games, and just in those three months emitted 138 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In order to make up for the high number of pollutants put out, Swift would have to plant 2,282 trees and allow them all to grow for a decade, according to The New Daily. 

Airplanes emit more than 100 times the amount of carbon dioxide opposed to different modes of transportation such as automobiles, buses or trains which makes Swift’s carbon footprint higher than the average human’s. 

In the past three months, Swift has produced the same amount of CO2 as 17 average families’ energy consumption, according to Economic Times. Her flights have used 12,622 gallons of jet fuel which comes out to a total of $70,779 spent on jet fuel alone. In 2023, her private jet had emitted 8,250 tons of carbon dioxide, which is around 1,200 times the amount of an average consumer. 

 “I think it’s weird that people don’t see what’s wrong with that just because she is who she is,” Lucy Eck ‘24 said.

Despite her advocation for climate change, which includes a collaboration with Greta Thunberg, a climate activist, there is no doubt Swift has harmed the planet and its atmosphere. If she considers different modes of transportation and reduces her number of flights across the world, she could reduce the number of greenhouse gasses she smits into the atmosphere. 

Another solution could be “she could plant trees at every place she travels to, she’s got enough money to do something like that,” AP environmental science teacher, Jane Norris said.