The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended.

Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.

Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.

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Charity is always a patch and a simulacrum for what's really needed.
It was never going to happen. To make actual change people have to be willing to sacrifice. And no one is, the richest of us least of all.
- A heat pump is not a sacrifice. An electric car is not a sacrifice, even well-working public transit is not a sacrifice. Wind/solar are not sacrifices. Vegan diets become less of a sacrifice by the day. All of that would get the bottom 80% of the population a large part of the way, right now. The only people that would really have to sacrifice are those who are the richest.
  
  From my POV a huge one is that we can't all own a several-ton personal vehicle. This is something people will not give up on in the near future, not even in my country which is eminently walkable, bikeable and with fairly good public transport.