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Ten billion, schmen schmillion

Why I'm taking Jeff Bezos's $10 billion climate pledge with several grains of salt.

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Emily Atkin
Feb 18, 2020
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Look, I’m not saying it’s not cool that the richest man in the world is going to to give $10 billion to help fight the climate crisis. It’s cool. It’s great. I’m happy. Can you hear how happy I am?

It’s great that Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos wants to save the world. If you didn’t see, yesterday Bezos an…

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