Bill Gates wants to team up more with Jeff Bezos to combat climate crisis

Gates is hoping he and Bezos can collaborate to back costly early-stage green alternatives to current technologies, in order to bring down the price point to make them more accessible to more people. — AFP

Bill Gates is aiming to work more closely with Amazon.com Inc chief executive officer Jeff Bezos to combat a climate crisis that the Microsoft Corp co-founder said could dwarf the current pandemic in fatalities and global impact.

“The deaths will just go up over time as you get more heat waves, forest fires and, most importantly, lose the ability to go outdoors and do farming anywhere near the equator,” Gates said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang. His book, How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, went on sale earlier this month.