1.08.2007

Socially Responsible Investing

I give Pete crap about having stock in Mobil, but I have to say i don't think that's nearly as bad as huge public figures investing in hypocritical ways--like Bill Gates. Sadness.

Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation

An excerpt:

The Gates Foundation has poured $218 million into polio and measles immunization and research worldwide, including in the Niger Delta. At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France — the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the United States or Europe.

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