Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Here’s where Jeff Bezos could start spending that $10 billion tackling climate change: A critical review

MIT Technology Review offers suggestion where to spend the $10 billion. None of them are to be recommended. The usual leftist, narrow and wrong talking points! 

We can only hope and pray that Jeffrey Bezos is not that stupid and so gullible!

"First, supporting groups lobbying for policies like carbon taxes, subsidies or emissions mandates that would accelerate the rollout of existing clean energy technologies like solar, wind and electric vehicles, or directly backing the politicians pushing them. Second, funding early stage academic or national lab research and development in areas where we still haven't developed affordable and scalable ways of eliminating or canceling out the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

Those could include: large-scale energy storage technologies to balance out fluctuations in wind, solar and other clean energy sources; methods for reducing climate pollution from fertilizers, livestock and other parts of our agricultural systems; and improved tools for capturing emissions from power plants and factories, or removing it from the atmosphere and permanently storing it."

What Bezos may want to consider investing in is (in no particular order and certainly not exhaustive):
  1. Economic development and prosperity e.g. in Africa and Latin America and some parts of Asia 
  2. Nuclear fusion
  3. Superconductivity
  4. Hydrogen power
  5. Photosynthesis for power generation
  6. Desalination
Here’s where Jeff Bezos could start spending that $10 billion tackling climate change - MIT Technology Review: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday he would donate $10 billion to combat climate change, marking one of the largest individual philanthropic commitments ever to the crucial environmental challenge.The details: "This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs – any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world," Bezos, the world's richest person, said in an Instagram post unveiling the Bezos Earth Fund.It appears he will donate the money to researchers and advocacy groups, rather than investing it into startups and other for-profit ventures tackling climate change, Axios reported.

Here is another article about Bezo's donation: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to battle climate change

"“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos said in an Instagram post."
Only proves to be among the richest humans on earth does not make someone very intelligent!

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