Posted on 05/04/2022 11:42:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability.
The gift, which Doerr is making with his wife, Ann, is the largest ever to a university for the establishment of a new school, and is the second largest gift to an academic institution, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Only Michael Bloomberg’s 2018 donation of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, ranks higher.
The gift establishes the Doerrs as leading funders of climate change research and scholarship, and will place Stanford at the center of public and private efforts to wean the world off fossil fuels.
“Climate and sustainability is going to be the new computer science,” said Doerr, who made his estimated $11.3 billion fortune investing in technology companies such as Slack, Google and Amazon. “This is what the young people want to work on with their lives, for all the right reasons.”
The school, to be known as the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, will be a home to traditional academic departments related to topics such as planetary science, energy technology and food-and-water security. It will also feature several interdisciplinary institutes and a center focused on developing practical policy and technology solutions to the climate crisis.
Arun Majumdar, who was named the school’s inaugural dean and has advised the Obama and Biden administrations on energy issues, said the school would provide context and analysis around climate change issues, but would stop short of advocacy.
“We will not go into the political arena,” he said. “That’s a very slippery slope for us.”
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“We will not go into the political arena,”
They probably won’t be going into the “real” employment arena, either-I can’t think of a single company that would need a grad of a climate school/university on their payroll for any reason...
Doerr and Stanford extending the climate hoax.
What a waste of money!
Don’t praise an empty gesture on a fictional problem.
It is for “optics” alone that this “school” has been founded.
Drop Stanford, and every other California school, from your list of admired Universities.
Gone in 60 seconds
The brain-donor algore convinced him.
Time to get a poker game going and invite John Doerr first.
OK. More money for disinformation. But I guess the real question is does money really convince people? Do nonstop advertisements and talking points have they reached their saturation point yet?
If you’re that rich and live in the Bay Area, you just want to be left in peace. So yeah, pretend you really care about climate change and all the politically correct things.
But to be honest, if you are an architect of the tech monopolies, you don’t really care about the country — you just want to make an insane profit.
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Michael Savage are happy exception to the rule.
Climate change is a racket but the racket is reality to the new people who control our world.
Like it or not, right or not, cost effective or not change is coming like a tsunami with all of the problems attendant.
Like so many foolish things, unnecessary and very painful. Very painful. I believe I will be ready to go when my time comes.
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