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The Independent|November 03, 2021
Earth is beautiful but fragile, Jeff Bezos has told Cop26 – something he realised when he left it on his $5.5bn space trip. The Amazon founder appeared at the climate summit in Glasgow yesterday to announce a $2bn investment to restore natural habitats and make food systems more resilient.
Louise Boyle
Bezos Pledges Billions To ‘Finite, Fragile' Planet Earth

The multi-billionaire described for the global audience his 10minute flight on his Blue Origin rocket this past July. “I was told that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens through which you view the world,” he said. “But I was not prepared for just how much that would be true. Looking back at Earth from up there the atmosphere seems so thin, the world so finite and so fragile.”

Mr Bezos spoke shortly after US president Joe Biden, British prime minister Boris Johnson, Democratic Republic of the Congo president Felix Tshisekedi, and other world leaders announced a global pact to end deforestation within the decade.

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