Eco-warrior Prince Harry flies private jet home from polo match

Prince Harry is being criticised for using a private jet to fly home after a polo match - just months after warning about climate change.

Prince Harry has been slammed as a “total hypocrite” after it emerged he flew home on a private jet after a polo match.

The prince copped blowback online for using the jet just three months after calling climate change one of society’s “most pressing issues”.

Prince Harry opted to take a private jet home from his charity polo event in Aspen rather than fly with the hoi polloi on the two-hour flight home to his mansion in Montecito, California.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry warned of the threat from climate change.

Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex hosted a charity polo match in Aspen, Colorado. Picture: SENTEBALE ISPS HANDA POLO CUP 2021

“Kids growing up in today’s world, pretty depressing, right, depending on where you live, your home country is either on fire, it’s either underwater, houses or forests are being flattened,” he said.

He had no concerns, however, about hopping on board his friend Marc Ganzi’s $60 million Gulfstream jet to go home to wife Meghan Markle and two children.

“This appears to be enormously hypocritical, given all his talk about climate change,” royal author Tom Quin told The Sun.

“Harry seems to see himself as someone who guides the rest of the world and that his own behaviour isn’t relevant. It is a huge blind spot.”

Yesterday Prince Harry took a private jet home from a polo match — after lecturing us all about how climate change is one of the world’s “most pressing issues”

A total hypocrite. Elite environmentalism is about telling the little people to know their place.

— Bella Wallersteiner (@BellaWallerstei) August 21, 2021

Prince Harry takes a private jet home from a polo match. Please lecture me more on privilege and environmentalism.

— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) August 21, 2021

Prince Harry was widely criticised for using a private jet to travel home after the polo match. Picture: SENTEBALE ISPS HANDA POLO CUP 2021

About 2.4% of global CO2 emissions come from aviation and a single private jet can emit two tonnes of CO2 in just one hour.

The prince seems to be taken with not practising what he preaches and in the past has taken four private jet flights in 11 days, including to a climate change summit in Sicily and six private jet flights in 2019.

Prince Harry has previously defended his use of private jets and insisted that 99 per cent of his air travel is via commercial flights.

In 2019, he claimed he tried to balance out the effects of private flights by off-setting his CO2 emissions.

- with the New York Post