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09/22/2006
Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla
A conversation with Sir Richard Branson and Vinod Khosla
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A conversation with entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, Chairman and CEO of the Virgin Group and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla about their global environmental initiatives, the threat of global warming, and the potential of green technology. They also discuss Branson's $3 billion commitment to fund research in alternative energy sources.
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Your attitude, RE, is not very helpful. These people have done harm through their businesses to the environment, but are now realizing the importance of measurements taken in this respect, and are doing much more good than the harm they did before. So... let's hope they manage to convince the deciding factors to do something about this ever increasing problem.
Well, this is all very nice, I'm sure, but he's doing it with money he's taken from everyone else, and it would be interesting to conjecture what the world might be like if he and the others like him - Gates, Buffett, et al - didn't.