NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.
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Bezos, the world’s richest man, said in an Instagram post that he’ll start giving grants this summer to scientists, activists and nonprofits working to protect Earth.
“I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change,” Bezos said in the post.
Amazon, the company Bezos runs, has an enormous carbon foodprint. Last year, Amazon officials said the company would work to have 100% of its energy use come from solar panels and other renewable energy by 2030.
The online retailer relies on fossil fuels to power planes, trucks and vans in order to ship billions of items all around the world. Amazon workers in its Seattle headquarters have been vocal in criticizing some of the company’s practices, pushing it to do more to combat climate change.
Bezos said in the post Monday that he will call his new initiative the Bezos Earth Fund. An Amazon spokesman confirmed that Bezos will be using his own money for the fund.
Despite being among the richest people in the world, Bezos only recently became active in donating money to causes as other billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have done. In 2018, Bezos started another fund, committing $2 billion of his own money to open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that help homeless families.
Bezos, who founded Amazon 25 years ago, has a stake in the company that is worth more than $100 billion.
When I was a kid there was a film called Brewsters Millions with a challenge to waste a fortune. Bozos and Bloomy have turned it into reality.
Real nut case. And you thought he a genius. Dumbbell. $10b to the greatest hoax. Gullible moron believes the liberals
Now we know how fake the Washington post is. The owner falls for cards of lies.
Man made climate change is a bunch of hogwash lies.
Sholmo listen up, man made climate change is a hoax. You argue but maybe its true? And maybe we can revert it? There are just too many maybe’s. If you want to inconvenience us prove it. And nobody believe’s not even Greta that naything will change.
This is all a hoax
He might. I seem to recall that in 2018 Forbes reported he donated one tenth of one percent of his wealth to charity. Crumbs.
What a fool.
What a shame. He could have used that ten billion to fight male pattern baldness.. Now we don’t have anyone who could do it!
When I look at doorsteps, I see Amazon boxes filled with packing peanuts and plastic wrappings. Then the trucks all over the place. If he wants to fight climate change, he should shut his mouth. Less carbon dioxide.
Such a bunch of intelligent people who do their best to deny science in this comment section. Funny, most Frum Jews I know all look of the best doctors when a medical condition comes up. Interesting how science matters when you think your life is at stake. Time to get your heads out of the sand. Or you can do the usual and cry about the fallout from not mitigating global warming… it can be the new shidduch crisis.
Can’t reply to your comment either
Ok so now we are getting somewhere. We do not know that C02 is the control knob of climate change.
You would suggest that we have stronger evidence that C02 is the cause, over any other explanation.
Very well, I ask you to present your evidence.