Nowadays, climate change is one of our most important concerns. We all know that the planet is warming, most of our fauna is in danger and water keeps rising. But as we know too, completely changing our way of living is very difficult, or even impossible, for lots of reasons but essentially because it will cost a fortune.
Now, let me present you Jeff Bezos or the richest man of our planet. He is Amazon’s director. His wealth is estimate at $130 billion and he has decided to give $10 billion to fight climate change. According to his statements, this money would finance the works of scientists or activists. The money will begin to be distributed during the 2020 summer. Even if Mr Bezos have already gave money for good deeds such as $2 billion in September 2018 for the homeless and to build schools, he has been criticised a lot for not signing the “Giving Pledge” (a pledge for super rich people in which they promise to give half of their wealth during their lifetimes).
But anyway, Jeff Bezos did his good deed in creating his “Bezos Earth Fund” and it’s the most important.
Besides giving his money for “Bezos Earth Fund”, he also have financing the Blue Origin Space project (whose goal is to develop new technologies to lower the cost of access to space) and Amazon also inaugurated a plan to become carbon-negative by 2030.
It seems that this is his biggest donation, which represents 8% of his wealth… And as Jeff Bezos said,“Earth is the one thing we all have in common – let’s protect it, together. »
Sources :
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51539321
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
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