Ten billion dollars - a lot of money

Tiistai 18.2.2020 klo 16.33 - Mikko Nikinmaa

The news today told that Jeff Bezos (Amazon) has pledged to give 10 billion dollars to combat climate change. The sum is about 8 % of his estimated wealth. At the moment this is the biggest single donation for climate action, although also Microsoft has started a 1-billion-dollar climate innovation fund and has pledged to remove all of the carbon from the environment that it has emitted since the company was founded in 1975. Another billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, has together with Carl Pope written a book “Climate of Hope”, which gives several suggestions for actions that would help combatting climate change. One of the reasons why Michael Bloomberg is running for US president is that Donald Trump acts against any climate actions, and can be considered to be a servant of the fossil fuel industry. Thus, superrich billionaires take the global climate problem seriously, but the “stable genius”, who is currently the president of USA and has several bankruptcies behind him is a lackey of companies who have known of the climate problems that their products will cause for at least 30 years. However, they have decided that making profits is more important than having viable planet. We have all been shocked by tobacco industry’s immoral behaviour, but the oil industry is, in my opinion, even worse.