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18 Feb 2020 — Jeff Bezos pledges £7.7bn to fight climate change. With an estimated net worth of up to $130bn, Bezos' $10bn pledge is almost 8% of his entire fortune...

18 FEB 2020
Last night, via the powerful online platform that is Instagram, Jeff Bezos declared to his 1.5million followers that he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund, further to recognising that “climate change is the biggest threat to our planet”, as stated on his post.





But now we get this...




The billionaire Amazon founder last month purchased a Gulfstream G700, luxury business jet manufactured by Gulfstream Aerospace that’s considered one of the largest and most advanced private jets in the world, according to Business Insider.

With a maximum range of around 7,500 nautical miles, the G700 is also said to be capable of reaching top speeds of Mach 0.925 — or around 92.5 per cent of the speed of sound, around 710 m.p.h.

The G700 also boasts 20 panoramic windows and “whisper⁠-⁠quiet cabin with 100 per cent fresh, plasma⁠-⁠ionized air replenished every two to three minutes”.

Last Sunday, the G700 took off from Ibiza.

At around the same time, Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez were photographed on the island near the mogul’s $US500 million —$A745 million — superyacht.

Publicly available flight data showed that Bezos’ plane made 28 flights in 39 days — leaving a carbon footprint of 264 tons, or 17 times what the average American emits in a year.

Bezos apparently tried to keep his acquisition of the plane out of the public eye by using the Federal Aviation Administration’s program that allows jet owners to keep information about their aircraft private.

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