• The Shift Project has estimated that
  • if only 3% of festival-goers attending the Vieilles Charrues Festival come by plane, they account for more than 60% of carbon emissions linked to public transport!
• Tomorrowland concert - close to 25,000 festival-goers fly in via "party flights"
• North America Burning Man - 20% of festival goers fly in
• In general, the largest footprint for famous cultural events is air travel

• top tier entertainers are conditioned to a high carbon lifestyle. This is a challenge to overcome.
• example given
  • DJ who flew to perform in four different EU cities in the same evening!

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• for France
• culture and leisure are the third reason for travel after work and shopping
• watching movies at movie theatre alone is responsible for nearly one million tons of CO2 emissions
• culture takes up 60% of all downloads on the internet, 80% if porn is included
• tens of thousands of buildings such as auditoriums are depending on fossil fuels to operate
• cultural events drive high carbon tourist industry:
  • account for 60% of revenue of hotels and restaurants at the Avignon Festival
  • Louvre's carbon footprint of 3.4 million tons of CO2 emissions are in large part due to air travel of tourists from around the globe

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• well written article on the carbon emissions challenges of the cultural sector
• this is related to the carbon emissions of the luxury industry as well

• same question as asked about luxury, since there is overlap with culture industry and luxury
• Given that the 1% have the same carbon emissions as the bottom half of humanity, does the sustainability impacts of the decarbonization efforts of the luxury aspects of the culture industry measure up to stay under earth system boundaries in time?

• https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=carbon+inequality

• some DJ's fly to perform in four European cities in a single evening!