Report: Bill Gates profited from investments in landfill operator
1/ Bill Gates says he wants to stop global warming. But we found that more than a fifth of his net worth actually comes from a major source of greenhouse gases: landfills. Why does Gates own a $29 billion stake in America’s No. 2 landfill operator? 🧵
ProPublica2922/ While fossil fuels get more attention, landfills are the third-largest source of U.S. emissions of methane, which can trap 80x more heat than carbon dioxide. Methane is generated when organic waste decomposes underground.
J. Smith64All these self-appointed “green” millionaires/billionaires who don’t think anyone will check their own “fortune supply chain” are very unserious people. And, again, thank you independent press!
Female Arthur Morgan22ok no offense but bill gates isn't the reason we have landfills and investing or not investing in them is not going to change our degenerate consumer behavior that requires so many. Idk what the point is, Gates needs to make them greener? That's supposed to be the government's job
Composting organics helps reduce landfill methane. I am glad to see increasing availability of drop-off sites and curbside pickup services.
🤘Patricia Lee, Publisher13I don’t know, but you know what’s really freaky? The dairy industry alone uses 44,000 times more water per year than all data centres combined in the world. Need milk? No. Not enough to destroy earth 44k times faster than the data centres we’ve been bitching about.  They even look the same.
Justin Patrick12Wake up babe, new ProPublica reporting just dropped
Alex Cuadros350I spent the last few months digging into a huge, mostly overlooked climate problem: methane pollution from landfills. This is what I discovered:
Jack Cousteau ⚓️13Bill Gates puts his money in toxic garbage. Surprised?
Phineas11He probably wanted to not get kicked to the curb by his wife also. There’s what you say you want and then there’s what your actual actions lead to.
Maj9Are we REALLY surprised that the guy that brought home sex bugs courtesy of Epstein to where he tried to sneak medication for it into his wife’s food & drink is a liar?
Noirbacca8maybe it's because this piece of shit is lying all the time
Sarcasmorator4well we all knew he was a trash guy
Avery Hage4Well yeah that's because he sucks
cameron tonkinwise2It's a bit harsh calling Microsoft landfill
Dolls & Does & Dragons. Oh my.2Why is organized crime always in waste management?
jd for Safe Streets 🎃🚸2Gotta have a place to hide all of his connections to Epstein
I stopped listening to Bill Gates years ago. You should too. Here’s yet one more reason why… He doesn’t understand what real climate solutions are. Instead, he has a really poor record of backing science-fiction solutions instead of the practical, real-world solutions we have today.
Dr. Jonathan Foley32Oh, and he was named the #1 Climate Hypocrite by Newsweek.
James Glave 🇨🇦3There is a specific class of techno-billionaire who feverishly believes that we can innovate our way out of this when in reality the solutions already exist but are smothered under lobbyists snd disinformation.
It is fairly grim to me that so much of the "you don't need to panic or talk about doom, we have the solutions right here" content steps around the fact people like Gates are not only choosing to not use immediate solutions but actively making the problem worse
Ketan Joshi20Anyway, you gotta go read my boy @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au's post on this, it's SO GOOD bsky.app/profile/timi...
Dr. Jonathan Foley15I think we can be focused on solutions instead of doom...But you’re 100% right: Gates has been spectacularly wrong about climate solutions, again and again and again. Like most VCs and tech bros. They focus too much on making money and science-fiction solutions that never arrive.
Lloyd Alter14I reviewed his book in 2021 and complained about his future tech solutions “It lets us wait for some deus ex machina to drop out of the sky and save us, instead of actually giving anything up or making changes in our lives or economies now.” corporateknights.com/perspectives...
Dark Matter Zine1in the 90s the ABC broadcast a short series on the history of computers that included stories about Bill Gates including his childhood with his childhood friends who went into computers. Because of that series, I’m convinced Bill Gates is a sociopath who only cares about his definition of winning.
Temu Bob Ross1I remember watching the al gore dvd, and when it came to solutions, everything made a tiny difference except CCS which was like more than half. I'd never heard of CCS at the time, so looked it up. "Oh no"
ok no offense but bill gates isn't the reason we have landfills and investing or not investing in them is not going to change our degenerate consumer behavior that requires so many. Idk what the point is, Gates needs to make them greener? That's supposed to be the government's job
Female Arthur Morgan17obviously I'm not defending these rich fuckers but at the same time we need to stay focused on actual problems and holding regulatory agencies accountable, not investors. They only care about profit
Toby Bartels1Republic Services is actively trying to prevent the government from doing this job.
Joe1The way to deal with the methane from landfills is to capture it and burn it off, possibly as a power source but even if not, a whole lot better than letting it escape. This produces one molecule of CO2 for each molecule (CH4) of methane but the resulting CO2 produces 1/80th as much global warming.
