Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion for Tackling Climate Change
Bezos is launching the fund when he’s under more scrutiny than ever
PBS
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As Jeff Bezos showed us yesterday, when you post on the main feed in Insta, you better deliver. The Amazon CEO said he’s launching the Bezos Earth Fund, a $10 billion initiative to fund efforts tackling climate change. It's the second largest charitable gift in recent history, per Recode.
- “We can save Earth. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals,” Bezos wrote.
Bezos, the world's richest man, is launching the fund as he and Amazon are under more scrutiny than ever.
Exhibit A: tonight's PBS doc
Amazon Empire: The Rise And Reign Of Jeff Bezos, which airs at 9pm ET, does its best to condense an impossibly huge subject into a TV special. It digs into Bezos’s early career, Amazon’s “ruthless” reputation, and the company’s tense relationship with D.C.
Bottom line, from the show notes: “Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism.” The question the documentary asks is, are we okay with that?
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