This article from the Washington Post highlights how the world's wealthiest people are attempting to address the urgency of climate change.
I say, if they want to spend their money addressing and potentially reducing the impact of climate change, then they should. (Especially if it involves small modular nuclear reactors, which I still think is a great bridge technology.)
For better or worse, billionaires now guide climate policy
Some partial paragraphs from this article:
"Bill Gates-backed innovations are in line to receive potentially billions of dollars of U.S. subsidies and push the energy transition toward new hydrogen, nuclear and carbon-capture technologies after the climate package the Microsoft founder helped champion was signed by President Biden over the summer."
and
"A clear example is Australian mining executive Andrew Forrest, a billionaire who says he personally met with Biden and the lawmaker key to pushing the Inflation Reduction Act through Congress, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) to lobby for it. Forrest’s vision for solving the climate crisis leans heavily on green hydrogen, a technology still being developed, for gutting emissions from big industrial operations that analysts had warned was too costly to be used widespread before the end of the decade."
Well, all I can say is, you've got to get started somewhere.
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