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Reminder that Gates has invested billions into fossil fuels, including coal power. Anything he does that’s “green” is to greenwash his other investments.
The foundation has saved tens of millions of lives.
His asset portfolio is invested in everything from energy to farmland.
As far as billionaires go, you could do a lot worse than having a portfolio diversified while saving millions of people by giving away billions of dollars.
How many tens of millions of people are billionaires clinging to fossil fuels going to kill due to climate change? How many billions? Is the human species even going to survive?
You’re punching up numbers like even one death is justified if he saves two more elsewhere. If people are just numbers to you, then I suppose you and he have a lot in common.
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