The adulation given to billionaire Richard Branson by the ABC’s news channel on his flight to the edge of space was nauseating.
Not because he is a billionaire. Personally, I don’t care what he does with his money – nor what his fellow self-described “space pioneers”, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk from Tesla/SpaceX do with theirs.
What was really annoying was that the three of them – along with the ABC – insist on lecturing us mere mortals of the dangers of climate chang…