Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, Committed $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change

Months after Amazon employees  publicly demanded Bezos to act towards climate change, he finally is throwing this weight – and his welth – by pleging $10 billion to combact climate change. 

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 28: Honoree Jeff Bezos speaks at the 21st Annual HRC National Dinner at the Washington Convention Center on October 28, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Even though this money only makes up about 7.7% out of Jeff Bezos’ net worth, which is roughly $130 billion, his pledge is one of the biggest ever made, according to rank by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Bezos falls shortly behind billionaire Warren Buffett, who committed $36 billion in 2016, and an estimated $16.4 billion pledge by Helen Walton, the late wife of Walmart (WMT) founder Sam Walton, in 2007.

Jeff Bezos’s pledge of $10bn to save the environment would be the third biggest philanthropic donation in the US this century

Guardian graphic. Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Amazon CEO announced his pledge through an Instagram post made on Monday, 17th of February.  The initiative is called Bezos Earth Fund

“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos said in the post. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change.”

“Anybody today who is not acknowledging that climate change is real – that we humans are affecting the planet in a very significant and dangerous way – those people are not being reasonable,” Bezos told Amazon’s Smbhav summit for small and medium-sized businesses in India last month.

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“This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs – any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world. We can save Earth. It’s going to take a collective effort from big companies, small companies, nation-states, global organizations, and individuals.”

The announcement appears to contradict Amazon’s actions towards employees speaking publicly about the climate crisis. In January, the Guardian revealed that several workers who called for stronger climate action by the company were warned to be quiet or face dismissal.

Although Bezos has not been as historically vocal as other tech billionaires about interest in philanthropy, he did, however, launch a network of free nonprofit preschools in 2018, to be constructed in low-income communities. In 2017, Bezos opened a poll on Twitter for philanthropy ideas to help those in need in the near-term future.

23 Y.O. Daughter Who Lives At Her Dad’s House Rent-Free “Exposes” Him On Social Media For Excluding Her From Family Vacation By Not Buying Her A Plane Ticket

Each parent has a different parenting style. With each parenting style comes a different way of showing a misbehaving child their wrongdoing, along with a different way of correcting such wrongdoings.

This father had a very terrible daughter. In his post in the Am I The A-Hole subreddit, he began by describing his daughter as someone who had a bad attitude and barely made it through high school. This is in contrast with her younger sister, who was the cream of the crop. To reward the younger, he thought of taking her on a fully-paid vacation. When the older heard of it, she wanted to come but agreed that she would pay her expenses. Come the day of the trip, the older hadn’t paid for her trip yet because she assumed that her father would vouch for her. Follow the full story below!

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This father is asking if he was wrong for not fully paying for her daughter’s vacation




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The father received split reactions from those who believed he did nothing wrong and those who believed he practiced favoritism.









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