In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some looked to the super rich for answers — the billionaires with enough cash to really make a splash. They backed green energy campaigns and carbon capture programs,

Breakthrough Energy, the climate group funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, has laid off dozens of employees in the US and Europe as it pulls back from public policy advocacy work that was a cornerstone of its mission.

As if there was any doubt, we can go ahead and officially add climate change to the list of things that we can’t count on billionaires to figure out for us. According to the New York Times, Breakthrough Energy,