Every year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Asset Trust dips into its $43 billion endowment to fund various healthcare, education and environmental initiatives. It turns out, more than $1 billion of that endowment is tied up in those very companies that are making the planet uninhabitable. Despite their public stance on the threat of climate change, recent findings indicate that they hold $1.4 billion of investments in 35 of the world’s top fossil fuel companies, Exxon, Shell and BP among them. In a January 2015 letter, “Our Big Bet for the Future”, the Gates called ...