Jeff Bezos says he spends more on climate than space travel
Jeff Bezos may have earmarked $1 billion of $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ stock a year to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, but he says he's spending more of his fortune on addressing climate change.
During an interview last week, Jeff Bezos was asked what he would say to critics who argue that billionaires such as himself should be spending more of their fortune on targeting Earth's climate issues rather than space travel.
They're missing the duality that we need to do both and that the two things are deeply connected. I'm actually spending even more money on the Bezos Earth Fund than I'm spending on space."
--Jeff Bezos
Bezos has long had an interest in space. At his high school graduation, he gave a valedictorian speech that said he wanted to build "space hotels, amusement parks, yachts and colonies for two or three million people orbiting around the earth." He ended his valedictorian speech with the words, "Space: the final frontier. Meet me there." It was meant to be a riff on the "Star Trek" tagline.
Bezos went on to play a small role as an alien in the 2016 sci-fi film "Star Trek: Beyond."
Source: CNBC
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