Mon Feb 13, 2023 – 4:07 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Microsoft co-founder and left-wing financier Bill Gates denied that his use of a fuel-heavy private jet to travel around the world meaningfully contributes to anthropogenic global warming when weighed against all the money he spends on climate activism, rejecting the suggestion of hypocrisy in a recent interview with the BBC.
The Daily Wire notes that the tech billionaire “flew more than 213,000 miles on 59 private jet flights in 2017, according to a study from Linnaeus University economics professor Stefan Gössling. The flight activity created some 1,760 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is nearly 109 times higher than the emissions per capita in the United States, according to data from the World Bank.”
Speaking to reporter Amol Rajan while in Kenya, Gates addressed the apparent discrepancy by asking, “should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria? I’m comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy Group is spending, that I’m part of the solution.”
Gates’s answer alludes
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