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Similarly, in Feb. 2020 one of America's richest men, Jeff Bezos, started a $10bn 'Earth Fund': https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/amazons-jeff-bezos-pledges-10-bi
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Similarly, in Feb. 2020 one of America's richest men, Jeff Bezos, started a $10bn 'Earth Fund': https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/amazons-jeff-bezos-pledges-10-billion-to-launch-earth-fund-for-combating-climate-change.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/amazons-jeff-bezos-pledges-1...
To give some context back then, Andrew Revkin gave a chart of what this is in actual relative to government-scale funding of projects: https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1229595028072300544 https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1229595028072300544
The other concern is that this seems only energy focused. What about environmental issues like land-use change, geochemical flows, biodiversity loss, etc. as mentioned as existential risks in the planetary boundaries framework (https://stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html https://stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundarie...) ?