Chamath Palihapitiya on climate change
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“if you want to fix our problems with russia china and the middle east the simplest thing is climate change. if you actually have the cost of wind and pv batteries etc cheaper than the cost of fossil fuels the simple economics... if the cost per gigawatt hour basically gets cheap enough and it's cheaper than fossil fuels you stop ripping the fossil fuels out of the ground.”
On , Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO at Social Capital, spoke about climate change during Chamath Palihapitiya: The World's First Trillionaire Will Be In Climate Change | Invest Here! on Beat the S&P.
About Chamath Palihapitiya
In a May 2026 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Chamath Palihapitiya discussed a range of topics including technology, economics, and governance. He argued that "attention" has been the central driver of technological revolutions over the past 30 years, citing Google, Facebook, and AI as examples. Palihapitiya also stated that the social compact between labor and capital has "totally collapsed," suggesting that corporate taxes should exceed personal taxes as a potential remedy. He compared the philanthropic efforts of past industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller to what he described as fewer "living tributes" built by modern capital. Palihapitiya also commented on government efficiency, estimating that 30 to 40% of the federal budget is lost due to "shitty code" and inefficiencies, and predicted that documenting government systems would reduce waste and fraud. Regarding China, he said the country's system rewards judgment and long-term priorities, which he described as "almost orthogonal" to the American system. On the topic of Elon Musk, Palihapitiya credited Musk's purchase of Twitter with preserving free speech, which he called a "core component of our civilization" that he believes was previously "curated" and "tightly controlled" by the federal government.