Emotional John Doerr fears 'eco-apocalypse'

Silicon Valley's legendary moneyman,
John Doerr, is afraid of eco-apocalypse.

John Doerr is looking forward to a conversation with his daughter in 20 years, but he fears that won’t happen.

Doeer, Silicon Valley's legendary moneyman, is afraid of eco-apocalypse, and in 2007argued on a TED talk that the world was not doing near enough to avoid that catastrophe.

"I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr says in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. To create a world fit for his daughter to live in, he says, we need to invest now in clean, green energy.

After building his reputation (and a considerable fortune) investing in high-tech successes, he's turning his focus toward green technologies, and hoping it isn't too late.

Doerr warns that carbon-dioxide-sputtering, gas-powered capitalism will destroy us all, and that going green may be the "biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

So Kleiner Perkins has invested $200 million in so-called greentech, a combination of start-ups that are pioneering alternative energy, waste remediation and other schemes to prevent the coming environmental calamity. But Doerr is afraid that it might be too little, too late.

Watch John Doerr’s TED Talk - “Salvation (and profit) in greentech.”