"While Gates stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year, he remains a Microsoft investor, and he still reviews products the company is developing.
Bill Gates said Friday that among the ways he aims to cut his carbon consumption is by flying less and eating synthetic meat more often.
The Microsoft co-founder was discussing his efforts to reduce climate change in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.
... He just published a book about climate change.
... In Gates’ latest Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on Friday, one user asked the Microsoft co-founder what people can do to reduce their carbon emissions. Among other things, he recommended that people consume less.
Another user responded by asking what he’s doing to consume less.
“On the personal front, I am doing a lot more,” Gates wrote.
“I am driving electric cars.
I have solar panels at my house.
I eat synthetic meat (some of the time!).
I buy green aviation fuel.
I pay for direct air capture by Climeworks.
I help finance electric heat pumps in low cost housing to replace natural gas.”
In November Gates made headlines after he predicted that more than half of all business travel would go away after the coronavirus pandemic.
On Friday he showed how that might manifest itself in his own schedule.
“I plan to fly a lot less now that the pandemic has shown we can get by with less trips,” he wrote.
Microsoft makes the Teams app that enables workers to chat and meet on video calls.
While Gates stepped down from Microsoft’s board last year, he remains a Microsoft investor, and he still reviews products the company is developing.
Gates also mentioned programs he’s involved with to foster green efforts.
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Gates is running vast enterprises in many sectors of the economy.
He has even invested in a company that is trying to produce lab-made “breast” milk.
He is now the owner of more farmland than anyone else in the United States ?
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