Posted on 10/22/2025 11:13:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
That's enough of that.
In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some looked to the super-rich — the billionaires with enough cash to really make a splash — for solutions.
They backed green energy campaigns and carbon capture programs, pushed plastics recycling and climate change messaging. New products hit the market as ethical consumption became the rule of the day: electric vehicles, solar panels, reusable bags, carbon-neutral dryer balls.
By the early 2020s, billionaires had positioned themselves as the masters of climate change policy, taking advantage of their great fortunes to become indispensable to environmentalism.
Now, however, many of those same billionaires are pulling support at an alarming rate. And Bill Gates — Microsoft founder, sixth richest man in the world, and alleged sex pest — is the latest among them.
New reporting by Heatmap is signaling the end of a “major chapter in climate giving,” as Breakthrough Energy — Gates’ climate change nonprofit — has locked the doors on its policy and advocacy office, laying off dozens of employees throughout Europe and the US.
Breakthrough’s lobbying was central to advancing climate policy through legislation championed by the Biden administration, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, and the bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Though the billionaire’s for-profit green energy investments at companies like Arnergy and Mission Zero Technologies remain in place, Breakthrough’s belt-tightening will very likely end the nonprofit’s grant writing efforts. That’s a major blow to climate nonprofits, and further evidence that, for all their feel-good bluster, the mega-rich never forget their bottom line.
Ever since billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump won his second presidential election, tech barons like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and of course Elon Musk have made no bones about shedding their progressive skin and embracing the new administration.
Gates, too, is cozying up to the returning president. In early January, the Microsoft founder spent three hours dining with his fellow billionaire, telling the Wall Street Journal he was “frankly impressed” by Trump’s grasp on the issues dear to him.
Though many no doubt feel betrayed by what seems like a sudden rightward turn, billionaires like Gates have always behaved like wolves in sheep’s clothing, prioritizing their fortunes above all.
For example, Gates was heavily involved in establishing the Global Fund, a privately-funded rival to the World Health Organization. While the Global Fund did improve global vaccination rates, the cost of basic medicines skyrocketed thanks to his introduction of for-profit actors into global health efforts — another sector made to rely on the generosity of billionaires.
Since then, Gates has had no trouble withholding COVID vaccines from impoverished countries, raking in profits from union-busting corporations, and throwing out money to buy media influence — to say nothing of his chummy friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
It all goes to show: billionaires were never going to save the world from climate catastrophe — they just needed us to believe they could.
He wanted to harvest the forests by burying trees so they wouldn’t release carbon.
Read this tonite on the desktop
I thought trees absorb carbon?
YOU CANNOT FOOL MOTHER NATURE !!!!!!!!
WHAT DAILY VACCINE?
WHAT ARMY IS GOING TO ENFORCE THAT???
LOL…”carbon-neutral dryer balls”
Yes, that’s been my favorite “save the earth” method. Should I keep my balls or dispose of them?
They do and they release oxygen.
PRETTY SURE WE LEARNED ABOUT “CARBON” IN ABOUT 5TH GRADE & HOW PLANTS NEED SUCH TO SURVIVE....
WHY WOULD I CARE?
WAS RAISED ON A FARM -—HE NEEDED OUR CROPS....
WE NEEDED OUR CROPS-—Sorry
I wish someone would AI the “ Fraü Blücher!”/horses screaming reaction every time his name is mentioned.
Skeevy little creep.
Well, of course. Climate Change and its agenda is incompatible with Microsoft AI server farms that need the energy of five full cities...each.
I swear I didn’t see your post when I made mine.
/horses scream
😬
I thought the research was clear” Climate Change is not caused by what the super wealthy do, only everyone else.
The push by Green billionaires began in 2000.
15 of them got together to come up with plans on how to help RATS win elections.
Bloomberg, Gates, Buffett, Bezos we know for sure were part of the 15.
Climate change, at least the mas made version of it, has never been undeniable.
Eventually the tree dies and/or burns. Guess where the carbon goes.
Someone smarter than he (about everyone) probably told him how much power giant server farms use.
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