Dave Rahardja<p>One can be pragmatic and claim that it’s not worth your money lobbying the Trump administration, because they are intransigent on climate policy (as in they don’t admit we need one)…</p><p>…but on the other hand, this is PRECISELY the moment that we need big money to be spent on promoting climate policy to counter the wrongheadedness of the Trump administration.</p><p>Steve Jobs famously said that you can’t cost-cut your way out of a predicament (Apple was in deep financial straits back then)—you have to INNOVATE your way out.</p><p>Assuming Gates actually wants to move the needle on climate solutions (and I believe he does to some extent), I think keeping his money in the program at this time has a greater chance of making an impact than during friendlier administrations.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/earther-ensdu4a6z/-/a-Lx5mfAw2TbS_tUOAfs7Txw%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@gizmodo/earther</span><span class="invisible">-ensdu4a6z/-/a-Lx5mfAw2TbS_tUOAfs7Txw%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0</span></a></p>