Space travel Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

Money, not principle, drives billionaire space cowboys*

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…

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