“What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner, but you also travel around the world on a private jet, you’re a hypocrite.”
“What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner, but you also travel around the world on a private jet, you’re a hypocrite,” said BBC’s Amor Rajan to Bill Gates recently.Gates reply was, “Well I, buy the gold standard of funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint and I spend billions of dollars on climate innovation.”that “owning a plane is a guilty pleasure”.
Gates founded Breakthrough Energy in 2015 with the intention to “work on the actual climate technologies our world will need to meaningfully reduce emissions” and bring the public and private sector together “to accelerate market formation, spur further innovation, and reduce Green Premiums.”
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