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Kylie Jenner is facing criticism after posting about her private jet amid the climate crisis

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Kylie Jenner is being criticized for a recent Instagram post about her private jet. Frazer Harrison / Staff / Kylie Jenner
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Social media users are criticzing Kylie Jenner over her latest Instagram post.

On Saturday, Jenner, 24, posted a black-and-white photo of herself and her boyfriend Travis Scott, 31, hugging in front of their private jets. Jenner and Scott share two children together, Stormi, 4, and the son they welcomed in February. 

She captioned the post, "you wanna take mine or yours ?"

A photo of Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner hugging in front of two private jets.
Kylie Jenner's Instagram post.  Kylie Jenner/Instagram

Jenner bought her $72.8 million jet in 2020, according to The Sun, and she uses it frequently. 

Her post was met with a flurry of supportive comments from her famous family members and friends. But others were quick to criticize Jenner's post as a display of excessive wealth and because of the impact private jets have on the climate. 

"But it's us who must use paper straws," one person commented on her post.

"Girl what am I recycling for," another wrote. 

"Why do I have to limit my meat consumption and use paper straws while the 1% gets to pump tons of carbon into the atmosphere for a day trip to Palm Springs?" another commenter asked.

Comments on the post had been limited as of Monday. 

Twenty-two percent of the world's carbon emissions are expected to be caused by aviation by 2050, and Transport and Environment found that "private jets are 5 to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes" per passenger.

Criticism of Jenner increased when the Celebrity Jets Twitter account — which uses public flight data to track celebrities' private jets — tweeted that Jenner's plane had recently taken a three-minute trip, which would have only been a 40-minute car ride. It was unclear if Jenner was in the jet at the time of the trip, and Jenner did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

The post is just the latest instance of members of the Kardashian-Jenner family flaunting their wealth and privilege.

In May, people mocked Kendall Jenner for the way she cut a cucumber on Hulu's "The Kardashians," which seemed to show she didn't prepare her own food often.

Others took to social media to criticize Kylie and Kris Jenner for acting elated in a grocery store after Kris said she hadn't been to one in two years, which she was able to avoid since the family can pay for others to bring their groceries to them, as BuzzFeed reported.

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Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn is a Senior Lifestyle Reporter at Business Insider with more than eight years of experience in the lifestyle space.At Business Insider, Samantha's coverage focuses on unique living situations, interior design, celebrity style, and books. Her work includes features on multigenerational living and one-of-a-kind houses, timely articles on celebrity fashion, live coverage of award shows and pageants, and fun pieces about popular book series. Samantha also loves reporting on celebrities on her beats, from HGTV stars Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa to authors such as Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.Samantha appeared on Scripps News and CBS in 2022 to discuss the royal family, and in 2023, she won an Anthem Award for her work on Business Insider's package "Better Me."Samantha received her B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 2017, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She later earned her M.S. in Publishing from New York University in 2019. Samantha was previously a staff writer at Romper, and her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mic, and Oprah.com. Today, Samantha lives in Atlanta with her husband and dog.Email her at sgrindell@jkmperu.com and follow her on X.