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that is precisely why they **donate** , because ((they)) wont take anything with ((them)) in the afterlife/hell... the money has to remain available for further nefarious projects and continue to be flushed around to corrupt everything. Meanwhile the average people leave a house or/and a few 1000's of dollars to their kids, while ((they)) consolidate. Who wins?
cleaning the oceans and preventing plastic from entering the seas is scam, what needs to be done is to ban at least its household and supermarket use. But who is ready for an economic collapse?
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14 billionaires just pledged half their fortunes to charity. The conversation it starts could be more important.
May 30, 2017
Some of the world's wealthiest business titans just promised to use their fortunes to do good.
An additional 14 individuals and couples from seven different countries joined the Giving Pledge, an initiative launched by Warren Buffett and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2010. The pledge's goal is to encourage billionaires and their families to dedicate the majority of their wealth—at least half—to philanthropic causes, either during their lifetimes or after their deaths.
The new signatories announced Tuesday include Australian gaming tycoon Leonard H. Ainsworth, easyJet airline founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, and investor Robert F. Smith. Past signers include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In 2010, Bill Gates told Fortune that giving away half of one's fortune was a "low bar." The Giving Pledge, however, is a moral pledge, not a legal one. There's no enforcement mechanism involved in signing, which means that signatories technically aren't obligated to give anything away. And because some billionaires may choose the option to leave sizable donations in their wills, the overall effects of the pledge might be considered long-term at best.
To give the pledge's impressive roster of billionaires the benefit of the doubt, they likely do have the planet's best interests at heart, in one way or another. Millions of dollars from people like Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson have certainly gone to good causes over the years, with or without the pledge. But signing, of course, comes with positive press and accolades. And there's definitely PR incentive to add your name to a list of the world's most elite do-gooders.
"It's like joining a club, that's all it is," Leonard Tow, the CEO of New Century Holdings who joined the pledge five years ago, told Bloomberg in 2015. "There wasn't any thinking about it."
The Giving Pledge also hints at the perils of "philanthrocapitalism." Simply throwing money at big, systemic problems without addressing the causes of inequality affects just how impactful large donations can be. This kind of practice reveals how a lack of accountability and a lack of questioning of the economic and societal factors that led to their extreme wealth is frequently at odds with their causes....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/14-billio...165145148.html
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Here is the list of the newest members:
Leonard H. Ainsworth (Australia)
Chairman Emeritus and Executive Director of Ainsworth Game Technology,
Mohammed Dewji (Tanzania)
President and CEO of MeTL Group
Dagmar Dolby (United States)
Philanthropist, pro-choice activist, widow of Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories
DONG Fangjun (People’s Republic of China)
Dongfang Huiquan Financial Holdings (Chairman)
Kjell Inge Røkke and Anne Grete Eidsvig (Norway)
Chairman of Norwegian industrial investment company Aker
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (Monaco, Cyprus)
Founder of EasyJet
Nick and Leslie Hanauer (United States)
Venture capitalist and founder of Civic Ventures
Iza and Samo Login (Slovenia)
Founders of media and entertainment company Outfit7
Dean and Marianne Metropoulos (United States)
Private equity firm Metropoulos & Co.
Terry and Susan Ragon (United States)
Founder and CEO of InterSystems Corp.
Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons (United States)
Investment management firm Meritage Group; co-founders of Sea Change Foundation
Robert Frederick Smith (United States)
Founder and CEO of Vista Equity partners
Harry H. Stine (United States)
Founder of Stine Seed
YOU Zhonghui ( People’s Republic of China)
Chairwoman of Shenzhen Seaskyland Investment Holdings Group
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-Our oceans may have found an unlikely savior.
Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke, who accrued his wealth in part through offshore oil drilling, announced this month that he’s donating the majority of his wealth to help save the oceans. Røkke is funding a 600-foot research yacht, which will tackle some of the most pressing environmental concerns of our time ― including how to rescue endangered species and eliminate plastic trash from our big blue seas.
“There may not be any economic rationale for the private construction of such a ship, but the case is compelling from the oceans’ point of view,” Røkke said in a statement.
News of the research vessel comes at a time when environmental experts are growing increasingly concerned about the state of our oceans, while the public remains mostly uninterested.
Among a number of initiatives, the Research Expedition Vessel will remove 5 tons of plastic a day from the oceans and melt them down. Some of the plastics will be used for fuel for the ship, and those that can’t be used for other purposes will be returned to waste management facilities on land.
Experts, including the World Wildlife Fund, which Røkke has partnered with, agree that collection isn’t enough. That’s why the researchers on board the ship will also work to develop plastic alternatives and identify ways to keep plastics from entering the ocean to begin with, Nina Jensen, CEO of WWF Norway, told HuffPost. WWF works to protect endangered species and natural places.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b094cdba540ef4
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