How Billionaires Can Save the World

If you have 25 billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket and can't figure out where to spend it you didn't deserve it in the first place.

Setup a contest to design, build and operate a fiscally viable 100% renewable energy source. The goal should be to operate a city of 250,000 24x7. The contest would be similar to the X-Prize for space flight.

How about a fiscally viable 100% self-sustaining community of 250,000?

Yah i agree with Karen!!! how can such a thing be possable after all we have been through

Put a $Billion$ price tag on Osama Bin Laden and watch the world markets go through the roof when one of terrorism's most wanted goes to jail.

Catching Osama means nothing to the war on terrorism or to equity market pricing. The war between western culture and islamic conservatism is bigger than its individual generals and icons.

We have multiple renewable energy resources. The biggest being oil & gas. The catch being the time span of +100 million years, challenges the discount rate (and puts our concerns for the planet in perspective - i.e. they are really concerns for ourselves).

More seriously, set up a university and venture capital fund in the five poorest regions of the world. Educated, enlightened and creative people with start up capital will lift another 2 billion people out of poverty.

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You're not going to like hearing this, but turning another 2 billion people into the same kind of "mega-consumers" that we americans and Europeans are will only hasten the end of this planet. I cringe every time I see some newsman crowing about all the Chinese getting cars for instance.

It's a shame that we can't (or won't) go backwards to simpler times ... for example, everyone riding mass transit to work, owning fewer things etc.

Amazing...reminds me of the strawman, if I had heart. And, don't give me the homile about teaching them how to fish.
If you ask me where to put it, you don't have eyes, what to do with it, you don't have a heart. You could be blind, and still feel the pain.
Do some good.

Certainly, the systems we have in place today are no means perfect. Thanks for trying to bring something better to the marketplace.

I support any firms that are helping to reach folks who care, have made good money and now want to invest in a better, cleaner, more just and humane future. You get my vote for your project!

It is up to us to train the next generation on how to be better leaders and make fewer mistakes for society.

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What ever you asy Billionaire's first job is to become , retain his wealth and increase it.For every social motif lies a business plan.Say for example setting up a hospital chain or schools.Every where money making is behind the motif.The number is very few.Even in charity,they mean publicity and growth plan instilled behind.I disagree with the author that they can change the world.In evry country this is the problem.By the way,what is the percentage of their income that they spend in transforming the world?Let us talk about the top 20 and their social publicity activities.