Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere.
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. https://heatmap.news/climate/breakthrough-energy-layoffs
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. https://heatmap.news/climate/breakthrough-energy-layoffs
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If I was a billionaire in this environment, I would absolutely be cutting off funding to my philanthropic efforts.
Otherwise, how would pay to protect myself when the jackboots come marching?
@marymcnamara.bsky.social
He built a climate advocacy operation to boost those views. Now he’s shuttering it. https://heatmap.news/climate/breakthrough-energy-layoffs
And his pledge to give away his wealth- when will that start?
He keeps getting richer and richer(maybe Trumponomics ends that trend.)
https://bsky.app/profile/nonviolence.bsky.social/post/3lk6wqphhfs2k
You can’t because they don’t exist.
want a country
in which a few
make a KILLING.
Democrats
want a country
in which all of us
can make a LIVING.
Go Big or Go Home
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-danger-health-epa-trump-doctors-weather-9fc086f392716c1b7d2b32ab7db6cc7d
Brussels is a shame.
Like you'd probably have a bigger 20-year emissions impact investing in advanced geothermal or lobbying for NEPA repeals than buying most carbon credits
But billionaires shouldn't exist; they should be heavily taxed, like in the 1950s, that they'd be only multimillionaires.
He wanted to gee whiz his way out of climate mitigation, but didn't want to just boost the hell out of solar or batteries?
Not that I had faith, but I hoped that Gates, might be different. I guess his ex got all the courage in the divorce settlement.
Maybe, But prob not. If societies collapse those $ won’t mean anything esp as the men with guns will rule.
Sadly there’s still time and tech to mitigate.
What is it? Midlife crisis part 2?
Every one of capitalists' promises about a better life for everyone are being reversed. The answer is in the middle. We should try that someday. Our survivors could give it a try next century.
Seriously our society's concept of 'intelligence' allowing hyper predatory software ceos to do whatever in any field has caused so much harm.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/04/bill-gates-cop28-paris-climate-agreement-goal/
That kind of money just accumulates.
https://youtu.be/QzQYA9Qjsi0?si=zcSGFanoWxw2QZyr