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10亿美元,而且想对气候变化做点什么,你会怎么做?对少数人来说,这不是一个反问。11月早些时候,亚马逊(Amazon)创始人杰夫•贝索斯(Jeff Bezos)在Instagram上发布一则消息,宣布他已向多个气候慈善机构捐赠7.91亿美元。这是一个包括比尔•盖茨(Bill Gates)和迈克尔•布隆伯格(Michael Bloomberg)的大趋势的最新动向。而且还会有更多行动,贝索斯的这些捐赠只是他的100亿美元“贝索斯地球基金”(Bezos Earth Fund)的“开始”。