RICHARD BRANSON GIVES 3 BILLION TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING

Saving the Earth was the main agenda item at President Clinton's world-betterment conference yesterday, with Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson pledging $3 billion to fight global warming and Al Gore warning of a full-scale planetary emergency. Branson, a British business tycoon, said the entire pledge - which would cover 10 years - will come from profits from his airline and train companies, and will be invested in renewable energy development. "Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents," the laid-back billionaire said at a press conference at the Sheraton New York in Midtown with the former president, kicking off the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative. "We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near-pristine a condition as we were lent it from our parents." ( Source-NY Post )