Jeff Bezos - who has pledged to spend billions of dollars to help fight climate change - nonetheless owns a $500 million superyacht that generates thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year, according to a new analysis by Indiana University researchers.
The Amazon founder's 417-foot sailing yacht "Koru," produces an astounding minimum of 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses annually - roughly 447 times the entire annual carbon footprint of your average American, the Indiana researchers found.
Billionaires such as Bezos, whose net worth is roughly $161 billion, "are invested in these issues like climate change and carbon emissions, and publicly, they are very vocal about that," said Indiana anthropology PhD candidate Beatriz Barros, who analyzed the ship's emissions with anthropologist Richard Wilk.
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