[Schiendelman]

If you don’t know anything about oil companies, you may be missing big parts of the climate change conversation. Individual actions, even from rich people, do not invalidate the points they make. Attacking them on those grounds is part of a campaign by the oil companies to make you and I fight people who are not the root cause of the problem. Don’t be taken in by it. A small number of large companies are responsible for the vast majority of omissions, and even many rich individuals changing their behavior have no impact on that.

[Lio]

You haven’t gone into what these companies are doing, but I fully believe you.

...but that’s not the point. Gates makes Gates look like a hypocrite not some unnamed “oil companies” mounting a conspiracy.

He should try riding a bike or catching a public train or a boat if he wants credibility. Heck even using a normal airline like the rest of us if he really has to fly.

A private jet is like a gold bathroom; it doesn’t matter how righteous you think you are it ain’t a good look unless you’re a third world dictator.

[Schiendelman]

Gates doesn’t make himself look like anything. Individuals burning fossil fuels for transportation is simply not a problem. The system that makes that the only reasonable choice for us is the problem. We need your help, you personally, to stop spreading that frame.