Comments on: Buffett and Gates Tour Oil Sands http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/21/buffett-and-gates-tour-oil-sands/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Noah Scales http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/21/buffett-and-gates-tour-oil-sands/#comment-567029 Noah Scales Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:42:19 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3067#comment-567029 Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are some of the biggest philanthropists of all time, with Buffett giving 85% of his 44 $billion to charities, most of it to the Gates foundation, until recently funded entirely out of the Gates fortune (in the $10's of billions of dollars). Frankly, if they're touring the Alberta Tar Sands, there's more going on than meets the eye. They are not impervious to social concerns, not by any means. I doubt greed is their dominating factor for visiting the sands. If investment were their interest, though, I think the two would be receptive to public concerns about the Tar Sands. -Noah Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are some of the biggest philanthropists of all time, with Buffett giving 85% of his 44 $billion to charities, most of it to the Gates foundation, until recently funded entirely out of the Gates fortune (in the $10’s of billions of dollars). Frankly, if they’re touring the Alberta Tar Sands, there’s more going on than meets the eye.

They are not impervious to social concerns, not by any means. I doubt greed is their dominating factor for visiting the sands. If investment were their interest, though, I think the two would be receptive to public concerns about the Tar Sands.

-Noah

]]> By: John Francis Lee http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/21/buffett-and-gates-tour-oil-sands/#comment-566798 John Francis Lee Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:49:37 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3067#comment-566798 <em>Hopefully the scarred and polluted landscape somehow put the men off investing in this growing environmental catastrophe.</em> When it comes to making "serious money" it's always a case of rape now; pay a pittance of conscience money later. Step one makes you a misanthrope, in the broader, more literal sense of the word. And in everlasting consequence. Step two makes you a "philanthropist", in the antagonymic sense of the word. And in one's own mind, which dies along with one's body. Like pedophiles, the robber-barons "can't help themselves". Hopefully the scarred and polluted landscape somehow put the men off investing in this growing environmental catastrophe.

When it comes to making “serious money” it’s always a case of rape now; pay a pittance of conscience money later.

Step one makes you a misanthrope, in the broader, more literal sense of the word. And in everlasting consequence.

Step two makes you a “philanthropist”, in the antagonymic sense of the word. And in one’s own mind, which dies along with one’s body.

Like pedophiles, the robber-barons “can’t help themselves”.

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