Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
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Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#2Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air.
I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks.
Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#3What are the tax implications of this wealth-transfer? Who are the winners?
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#4Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
>I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks.
Why? Jeff Bezos donating that much money to combat climate change will have a much larger positive good than the negative things you outlined that he does.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#5Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
I know this is completely not your point, but do rockets actually dump a lot of carbon? I thought most rocket exhaust was mostly water.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#6Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
What do you think actually makes the most difference:
a) Donating $10B b) Reducing his personal environmental impact to zero
You are literally more interested in virtue signalling than making actual change.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#7Do we know how much emissions can be attributed to Amazon / AWS? I'm curious if this $10 billion fund could offset that or if it's too small to cover their own use.
Though, to be fair to Amazon, this is at least a good goal:
> Amazon expects 80% of its energy use to come from renewable energy sources by 2024, up from a current rate of 40%, before transition to zero emissions by 2030.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#8Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
Sacrificing isn't going to solve the problem. Saying that people need to do that seems to be it's own virtue signal.
Climate change is billions of people over decades. Bezos can't sacrifice enough to make a difference.
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#9Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
What does changing his lifestyle have to do with anything. He's just giving 10 billion dollars to a good cause and somehow you're using it to fuel an arbitrary vendetta with someone you've never met.
Maybe that is not a significant change in his spending account, but how many of us are truly making lifestyle sacrifices to support these causes? I think it's a very small number, and most people haven't given 10 billion dollars to the cause (or done any of the other amazing things Bezos' has done for this society).
Re: Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
#10Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air. I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks. Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
I think these kinds of opinions are really dangerous–we cannot just expect society to go back to the stone age. It's why the average human is blocking climate change out, the changes have to come in the form of e.g. CO2 taxes and broad regulation. Climate is not the responsibility of the individual citizen. It's bad enough as it is, we don't need to feel guilty every day about small things like using a plastic straw when the scale of the problem is so mind-bogglingly large