Opinion | Why billionaire philanthropists like Jeff Bezos can't fix the planet (or even want to)

Opinion | Paris Marx: Jeff Bezos' climate change philanthropy has quite a few (hidden) strings attached. - NBCNewsTHINK

That's why billionaires' donations will never be enough. The highways, the suburbs and the victory against the Nazis — just to provide a few examples — are products not of the private sector but of government action.

The Bezos Earth Fund may help shepherd along some new technologies, but billionaire philanthropy will not alter the regulatory structure that created the problem in the first place.

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