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$10B Bezos Earth Fund hires a long-time global leader on climate issues as president and CEO

GeekWire

“Andrew has decades of experience in environmental and climate science as well as economic and social policy in the U.S., The organization noted that during his tenure the organization, whose reach spans more than 60 countries, grew its staff five-fold and its budget quadrupled between 2012 and 2021.

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The real scandal behind billionaire Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office

Vox

The ethical concerns surrounding this news are glaring: A tech billionaire with an obvious personal interest in shaping government tech policy is giving money to an independent government agency devoted to tech and science, albeit through his private philanthropic foundation.

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How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Vox

I had asked the people at the “let’s all give our money to buy the world’s poor malaria bed nets” conference to buy me a plane ticket ? Obviously the money should go to bed nets! In June 2022, the crypto market crashed , and Bankman-Fried’s net worth, as estimated by Bloomberg , crashed with it. Flash forward to 2021.

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