Climate Change

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The displacement that we're seeing in ukrane and in some of the other examples you cite, are spurred by geopolitical issues. How much do immediate crises like covet like ukrane threaten to distract us from the longer term challenges the climate change might bring? There's no reason people should be suffering if you can help them. And it's finally opened up the conversation to one of the energy sources that i feel strongly about, which is nuclear power.

Airbnb’s charitable arm, Airbnb.org, has committed to offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Rapid Response to discuss how the company is deploying business tools for humanitarian benefit. He also shares how Airbnb’s platform has become a surprising tool to transfer money directly to individual Ukrainians, already generating $15 million. Along with co-founders Brian Chesky and Nate Blecharczyk, Joe is a fierce believer that companies should be responsible to “participate in the world around us” and the importance, as leaders, to ask: What would make us proud?

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