Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion to Fight Climate Change

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is committing $10 billion to fight climate change in a new initiative called the Bezos Earth Fund.

The pledge was just “to start,” he said in an Instagram post.

Announcing the new initiative on Monday, Bezos said the funding would back scientists, activists and government organizations working to mitigate the impact of climate change

MSN reports: He said he expected to start issuing grants this summer.

“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” he wrote. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.”

Mr. Bezos has historically done little philanthropy, though he has lately ramped up his giving. His largest donation to date was $2 billion, unveiled in September 2018, to help homeless families and build a network of Montessori preschools, an effort that he announced with his then-wife, MacKenzie.’

In September, Mr. Bezos unveiled the Climate Pledge, committing Amazon to meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement 10 years ahead of schedule and to be carbon neutral by 2040. As part of the pledge, Mr. Bezos said Amazon was ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Rivian, a Michigan-based company that Amazon has invested in.

7 Comments

  1. Fight climate change how? In detail?

    Climate as ALWAYS changed…how is he going to fight nature and the natural system?

  2. It will change nothing, except exploit those that are mining for the new oil, which are the components that make batteries. And he’ll make more than he is pledging from the exploitation.

  3. Reality: Worldwide homelessness, joblessness, poverty, depression, desolation, chaos, anarchy, illnesses, and plagues. Polluted air, water and food. The most disadvantaged youth ever seen in human history. The oldest working force and politicians in human history. Autism, ADD, dementia, and various mental problems becoming normalized.

    Concerns: Plastic bags, unchangeable weather cycles, already underpowered 4-cylinder cars, people using AC during blisteringly hot summers and people use heat during blisteringly cold winters. Hungry people eating (as if its a problem or surprise that people who have access to food would eat it until they can’t!!!).

  4. Spends $10 billion on nonsense. Only pays slave workers $10-12/hr (half rate). The rich better enjoy their luxuries while they can’t. There is a Hell and they are all going to learn where it is! As a rule of thumb, any company responsible for paying any workers less than $22-25/hr are all karmically doomed, before even examining work conditions!

  5. What he meant to say is he pledges $10 billion to buy more gas guzzling Amazon delivery vans…. You know the ones that dont give a ch* t where they drive or park…..

  6. Jeff BeZOG: The climate change hoax, smoke and mirrors for the sheeping folks, the geoengineered lands now being flooded and DEW burnt via the hidden hands, and as with the NovidCovid-1984 hoax, the chaps with the little hats control the wheel and the spokes, ‘so when you own nothing while dying from the Gates of Hell jab, understand that you’ll be happy’, so no need to be sad, folks!

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