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Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to fight climate change (japantimes.co.jp)
12 points by Ultramanoid on June 9, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is a voluntary, selfless act that will have more impact than most of us achieve in our lifetimes. Michael Bloomberg could have spent this money selfishly on yachts, jets, or islands, but instead he choose to spend it correcting a market failure in which negative externalities from coal pollution were underpriced. Thank you Michael Bloomberg.


Yeah, if we needed to have a rich New Yorker as our president I would have preferred Bloomberg.




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