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.

there are choices you make every day without giving it another thought which contribute a drop in the bucket of destroying our own habitat and biome. and many people are making those same choices together. you could sacrifice and live like a poor person but you don,t. like a nouveau riche, you buy things you don,t need from the global economy which are trucked and shipped around the world on diesel many times over before you see them, and you know it, and you still do it, because you,re too lazy to make a change. then you blame the ones you just hired to do the damage for you. you're giving your power away and have no one else to blame.

The act of doing so is a zero sum game with your other activities to make a real impact. If you refuse to fly to Washington DC, you can’t lobby. You are being taken in by a well-established campaign to get you to do and say what you are doing and saying.