ADOPT A BILLIONAIRE
Hold Billionaires Accountable
The world's ~3,000 billionaires are disproportionately responsible for threatening the planet's sustainability. Join us to end their destructive influence.
Learn How to AdoptBillionaire Facts
"Someone would have had to work since the time of Christ to make a billion pounds if they had earned £10,000 a week."
"Elon Musk could spend a million dollars a day for 1,000 years to get through his fortune (and that's without earning interest)."
Reason for the Campaign
There are about 3000 billionaires in the world who, research has shown, should take most of the blame for disastrous climate change. But how many can you name? 5? – 10? - 20? These people are a danger to us all so why are they not all subject to public scrutiny?
This new international campaign is launched with the objective of exposing the crucial role of the world’s billionaires in the trashing of our planet and relieving them of the means to do so.
By finding out who these politically powerful but unelected people are, entering into a direct dialogue with them and adopting them we hope to attract enough public condemnation to drastically reduce their baleful influence in our billionaire-friendly political system.
Billionaires Exposed
Carbon emissions from billionaire’s super yachts, aircraft, vehicles and their many homes are tens of thousands of times those of ordinary citizens.
Their ownership of some of the most influential, climate-change-denying newspapers and other media and their bankrolling of think tanks, political parties and individual politicians who dispute the science of catastrophic environmental change, is making it much more difficult for us to provide a safe future for our children.
With very few exceptions, billionaires know full well that they could transform the lives of tens of thousands of desperately poor people without noticeably affecting their lives-tyles. But they deliberately decide to do nothing.
Why Billionaires are Vulnerable
Despite their enormous financial and political power, billionaires are nevertheless vulnerable to changing public opinion. This is because…
Fear of Exposure
They worry the public will discover their fortunes often stem from questionable or exploitative origins (inheritance, monopolies, tax avoidance, etc.).
Shared Fate
They ultimately face the same environmental consequences as everyone else – there's no Planet B, even for them.
Desire for Anonymity
Most billionaires prefer to operate outside the public spotlight and scrutiny that comes with widespread attention.
Putting Theory into Practice
After a year of conducting research and holding discussions with key environmentalists and environmentalist groups, Adopt a Billionaire are launching a campaign to demonstrate how local environmental groups all over the world can select and adopt a billionaire of their choice.
We will show how such groups can make contact with their adopted billionaire and explain how they could win massive appreciation by reversing their destructive influence but also explaining how, if they remain hell-bent on ruining the planet, details of their shameful behaviour will be made public and they will face inevitable public opprobrium.
Some billionaires may change their ways after being adopted, some may begin to pay taxes like everyone else but the main objective of the campaign is to educate (and outrage) the public and recognise how the curbing of unaccountable political power could save our environment.
All participants must find ways of maximising the publicity for the findings of their encounter with their adoptee and of sharing it with all other participants preferably through this web site.
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