Just yesterday, the Huffington Post gleefully announced that Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, with a net worth of $87.4 billion, is combining his vast resources with 20 or more other billionaires to fight…what else…climate change.
I may have misspoken when I said he was going to combine his “vast resources.” He’s not really. He and 20 or so other fat-cats have established the “Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund.”
Combined, these 20 wildly wealthy individuals will chip in a total of $1 billion, “to build companies that will help deliver the next generation of reliable, affordable, and emissions-free energy to the world,” Gates said. A bit of a paltry figure, considering their cumulative wealth is in excess of $170 billion. But still, a billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at. Oh, and the initiative plans to invest in “green energy” over 20 years.
The HuffPo writes that, “The fund will focus its investments on projects relating to a number of clean energy issues such as carbon emission reduction and energy generation and storage.” Gates added that, “In addition to mitigating climate change, affordable clean energy will help fight poverty.”
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How is “carbon emission reduction” going to “help fight poverty?” If I am battling to just stay alive, wondering where my next meal will come from – do I give a crap about “carbon emission reduction?” I think not. I would start a tire fire if I thought it might attract some food.
I honestly think these guys are so wealthy that they don’t know what to do with the money. They feel guilty about having so much that they go looking for causes. For whatever reason, the bogus claim of global warming seems to top the list of causes to alleviate the guilt.
Recall when I said a billion dollars is a paltry figure, but is still nothing to sneeze at? Well, the former is right and the latter wrong. In the world of planet-wide climate change expenditures, $1 billion is barely a rounding error. That billion will do diddly squat.
According to ClimatePolicyIntitiative.org, global investment in climate change stood at “$359 billion in 2012. Climate investment was split almost evenly between developed and developing countries, which received $177 billion and $182 billion respectively.”
They added that, “private investment into renewable energy projects in Europe totaled $73 billion, while investment in China was $68 billion, the U.S. $27 billion, Latin America $7 billion, and India $5 billion.”
My I add that the term “private investment” sounds nice, but we know it is a complete scam. There is little to no “private investment” in the world of climate change finance.
There is either direct government outlay or indirect government outlay in the form of grants, guarantees, and kickbacks to corporations who are favored by a given government.
So we see that Gates’s $1 billion fund will not mean beans, relative to the hundreds of billions floating around the climate change world. But it’s even worse than that.
In 2015, Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ), a climate change business consulting firm, concluded that the business of climate change is far more than $359 billion. It “calculated that the annual cost of the global warming industry is $1.5 trillion.” That’s over $4 billion per day worldwide, and $3 billion more than the Gates fund has pledged over 20 years.
In fact it’s more spent in one year on a hoax than the entire net worth of the 50 wealthiest people on Earth, at $1.46 trillion.
Rest assured that no one will do an honest follow-up or assessment on the results of the “Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund.” It is enough to know that’s Gates and other guilty billionaires are at least trying, as the rest of us are busy ruining the planet. That’s really all that counts in the liberal world – isn’t it?
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