Bill Gates gives speech demanding action on climate change to moguls who flew in on private jets

[Klaralven]

Bill Gates gives speech demanding action on climate change to moguls who flew into Sun Valley on private jets: Michael Bloomberg, Anderson Cooper and Diane von Furstenberg enjoy penultimate day of 'billionaire summer camp'

Bill Gates on Friday gave a speech about climate change to billionaires and millionaires gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho
So many of the attendees flew in on private jets, to hear the climate change talk, that the air space from as far afield as Michigan and Canada had to be temporarily closed
The annual event, now in its 37th year, has drawn its usual gathering of luminaries from tech, industry, media and sport
Among those attending this year are the world's richest man Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, CIA director Bill Burns, Disney chairman Bob Iger and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
The group have had sessions on public health, criminal justice reform and the global economy
The meeting concludes on Saturday with a discussion with 90-year-old Warren Buffett

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9774797/Bloomberg-Cooper-von-Furstenberg-enjoy-penultimate-day-Sun-Valley-billionaire-summer-camp.html

[abqtommy]

1. This just shows that irony and hypocrisy are alive, well and thriving.

[brooklynite]

6. How many people finding this ironic or hypocritical drive a private car?

…or fly on vacation rather than stay local?

Not a lot of environmental purity in the world.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. They have the resources to make changes the rest of us

can only dream about, I don’t begrudge them their private jets. I vastly prefer business or first class flying whenever I can get the upgrade.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Any Indigenous voices?

Pfft. These clowns know nothing.

[Hortensis]

4. Well, at least they are gathering to talk climate.

Climate problems are kind of big, after all. Unfortunately, what coverage there is seems to be all tabloid trash completely unrelated to it and other problems discussed by people with very big footprints besides carbon.

[luckone]

5. Well I hope they listen for more action, innovation, and increase a push for regulations to help

They have the power, $ , influence and connects.
Who knows ..
At least they are not gathering to talk about stopping criminal justice reform or are working as a group to deny climate change

[betsuni]

7. Wait, I thought billionaires & oligarchs didn't care about climate change.

We're told they only think about money.

Now they have a meeting about climate change dressed in sloppy casual clothing but it's bad because private jets? I've heard that argument before. Climate change activists like Al Gore or celebrities discounted because they use private jets. Meaghan McCain used that one a lot.

[ratchiweenie]

8. My immediate thought was they were meeting to discuss how they could take financial

advantage of the crisis.

[Budi]

9. They should have gone to Sun Valley by pack mule like everyone else?

smh


You know, this reminds me of a certain politician speaking on climate change & the environment with her plastic water bottle on the table next to her.