Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
It's disappointing to see colossal amounts of money like this isn't used to address demonstrable human suffering happening all over the world right now.  Microsoft could take this money, set up shop in Haiti, and develop over the course of a generation a tech sector in a country whose main export is t-shirts.  They might even eventually make enough return to reinvest in other areas and bring the rest of the world up to first world standards.<p>Instead, this money is going to pool in upper class first world green economies as they use it to buy expensive electric cars, install expensive solar panels, and fund expensive climate change activists.  That their efforts might slightly reduce the number of hurricanes in a hundred years is little consolation to the thousands of lives lost every decade in that country to natural disasters and disease, otherwise be preventable if the population wasn't living in shanty towns.