How should billionaires spend their climate action dollars?

Vox’s Sigal Samuel asked an occasionally odd list of experts for their opinions, and responses could have been better

Recently, Sigal Samuel of Vox asked 9 experts, “How should billionaires spend their money to fight climate change?” It’s a worthwhile question, as right now a lot of billionaires are spending a lot of money on the subject and related concerns, and some of it is a waste of money. This article will look at some of the suggested solutions, and look at a few billionaires and how they are actually spending their money, and make some judgments about the experts and their opinions.

First off, the experts are a reasonable list. If asked, my list would have overlapped substantially with the one that Samuel ended up with. Bill McKibben, Ashok Gupta, Alan Robock, Kerry Manuel, Kate Marvel, Adrienne Hollis, and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin — redundant with Bill, but hey… — are great choices. I wouldn’t have bothered with the geoengineering leader or the Breakthrough Institute…