Can We Trust the Hacker Philanthropists?

In The News Piece in Slate
Flickr Creative Commons
Dec. 1, 2015

The billionaires are here to save us. As the governments of the world twiddle their thumbs in Paris over carbon emissions, on Monday Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg announced an ambitious philanthropic undertaking to fight climate change. That was followed by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan’s announcement Tuesday that he plans to donate nearly all of his money to philanthropic efforts.