Can one person make a difference in climate change? The consensus is no, but venture capitalist Vinod Khosla adds an asterisk to that thought.
For each major breakthrough in addressing carbon emissions, there has been a “pioneer that drove the innovation,” Khosla said at Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum on Thursday. “If you look at electric vehicles, it wasn’t General Motors or Volkswagen that made society believe EVs were possible. Elon Musk almost single-handedly did it, and then everybody else followed.”
