If you had a billion dollars and wanted to do something about climate change, what would you do? For a handful of people, that is not a rhetorical question. An Instagram post earlier this month from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — announcing he had scattered $791m across various climate charities — is the latest in a trend that includes Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. And there’s more on the way — Bezos’s donations are “just the beginning” of his $10bn Bezos Earth Fund.
如果你有10億美元,而且想對氣候變化做點什麼,你會怎麼做?對少數人來說,這不是一個反問。11月早些時候,亞馬遜(Amazon)創辦人傑夫•貝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)在Instagram上發佈一則訊息,宣佈他已向多個氣候慈善機構捐贈7.91億美元。這是一個包括比爾•蓋茲(Bill Gates)和麥克•彭博(Michael Bloomberg)的大趨勢的最新動向。而且還會有更多行動,貝佐斯的這些捐贈只是他的100億美元「貝佐斯地球基金」(Bezos Earth Fund)的「開始」。