King Charles 'wrecking the climate' with 11 minute helicopter journey to Scots foodbank

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King Charles has been accused of climate hypocrisy after burning through more carbon in an 11 minute helicopter journey to a foodbank than most people use in a week.The monarch dropped into Alloa in his private chopper on Thursday to speak to staff and users of The Gate Foodbank which provides 75,000 meals a year to struggling families and people facing homelessness.But the Sunday Mail can reveal that the King’s journey from his beloved Dumfries House at Cumnock in Ayrshire in his £6million helicopter expelled 0.3 tonnes of carbon emmission during the 11 minute, 50 mile, trip.That’s more than the average 0.2 tonnes of carbon which the average person uses in a week.And we can also reveal how flight logs show the helicopter left an RAF base in London to travel to Scotland the day before and returned following the foodbank trip - burning a total of 4.6tonnes of carbon over 684 miles.It’s unclear if the King - known for his decades of evironmental campaigning - was on either of those associated journeys.Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater MSP said: “This is farcical.

A billionaire monarch visiting a food bank in a private helicopter seems like a comedy sketch rather than reality.“There is nothing more wasteful than a private jet or helicopter, yet these short carbon intensive and climate wrecking journeys are made by the ultra-wealthy on a whim.

The vast fortunes they are hoarding could do so much to tackle both the poverty he was there to highlight and the growing environmental challenges we face.“To create more carbon emissions in one day than most people do in one month shows a total disregard for people and planet.“The fairer, greener Scotland I want to see is one without private helicopters and jets pumping pollution