How did Bono bring evangelicals along? AIDS was perceived as a gay person's disease back in the day. In Africa, it was becoming a women's disease because of an anatomical reality associated with HIV that makes it easier for women to be infected than for men. He got George W. Bush on board; he got Jesse Helms and other conservative members of American Congress on board. PEPFAR has saved 20 million lives due to Bono's work,. Bobby Schriver was super involved in that and an architect of it in many ways.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Trevor Neilson, founder of startup Wastefuel and the Climate Emergency Fund, to talk about how he helped launch and finance Extinction Rebellion (XR) (4:50), how the Malibu wildfires inspired him to act (8:20), meeting Roger Hallam, founder of XR and Just Stop Oil (16:00), bankrolling protestors (18:00), why he thinks the movement has gone off the rails (22:50), whether he is worried about what his former colleagues will think (32:00), how XR has experimented with changing tactics (40:30), where and how he grew up (43:30), getting a job at the White House (46:30), working with Bono on AIDS (50:00), starting his own company (55:00), why he does not think we will meet the 1.5 degree goal (58:10), telling the truth (1:09:00), and the children suing Montana (1:11:50)
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