{"id":1840047,"date":"2023-02-08T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840047"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:22:39","slug":"bill-gates-confronted-over-his-private-jet-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-confronted-over-his-private-jet-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Confronted Over His Private Jet Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-confronted-over-his-private-jet-use%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840047&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bill-Gates-Claims-Confronted-over-Flying-on-Private-Jets-Claims-Hes-Not-Part-of-the-Problem.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, claimed that his activism on climate change does not contradict his use of private jets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amol Rajan, a broadcaster, was confronted by Amol Rajan during a BBC interview last Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/tag\/bill-gates\/\">Bill Gates<\/a> Given that he is a private pilot, it&#8217;s easy to see why his climate activism should be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Gates said that it was fine for him to fly privately, and that he was part the solution, not the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I buy the gold standard, of funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family\u2019s carbon footprint,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Bill Gates answered a BBC reporter directly, explaining why his climate activism should matter. Gates continues to fly private throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Gates tried to assure the reporter that, despite his private jet usage, he is not part of the problem, he\u2019s part of the solution. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6f8Ymcp4l\">pic.twitter.com\/U6f8Ymcp4l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Hild (@WillHild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillHild\/status\/1623080578504441857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Climeworks, a Swiss company that specializes in carbon dioxide air capture technology, was purchased by Gates in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/climeworks.com\/news\/climeworks-extends-collaboration-with-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">News release<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cToday, Climeworks is proud to take its collaboration with Microsoft one step further by becoming its first long-term carbon removal supplier.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201d The two companies signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement, where Climeworks will permanently remove 10\u2019000 tons of CO\u2082 emissions from the atmosphere on Microsoft\u2019s behalf.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This second and forward-looking commitment is one of the largest DAC agreements ever signed and proof of Microsoft\u2019s conviction of both Climeworks\u2019 technology and ability to scale.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to its <a href=\"https:\/\/climeworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a>, \u201cClimeworks uses a technology called \u2018direct air capture\u2019 to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the removed CO\u2082 is combined with underground storage, it allows the permanent removal of excess and legacy CO\u2082 emissions, which can no longer contribute to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates has added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, I\u2019m 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\u2019m part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/bill-gates-gives-awkward-response-when-asked-about-his-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-watch\/\">When Bill Gates is asked about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, he gives an awkward response<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, claimed that his activism on climate change does not contradict his use of private jets. Amol Rajan, a broadcaster, was confronted by Amol Rajan during a BBC interview last Friday Bill Gates Given that he is a private pilot, it&#8217;s easy to see why his climate activism should be taken seriously. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1840050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8653,3979,11991,4070],"class_list":["post-1840047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-confronted","tag-gates","tag-jet","tag-private"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}