Globe and Mail: Tom Steyer is a man at odds with himself. He made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil, pipeline and mining companies. The firm also gobbled up stock in BP a year after its Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. All this should hardly make him a darling of environmentalists.
Yet theres a green streak to Mr. Steyer one that led last year to something of an existential crisis: Climate change, the American billionaire...