Before he turned to renewable energy, Dr Forrest updated shareholders on the Minderoo Foundation he set up 10 years ago with his wife Nicola that is funded with $2.5 billion of their Fortescue dividends. "We're tackling some of the most challenging problems on earth like modern slavery, indigenous inequality, community bushfire and flood resilience," Dr Forrest said. Another Minderoo focus is plastic pollution "that is genocidal to wildlife and over time in a degraded form, behaving much like asbestos in our own bodies." Dr Forrest is clear when he does not like something. "There can be no doubt, ladies and gentlemen, that the plastification of our oceans, and its equally malicious twin, fossil fuel-generated global warming are amongst the greatest threats to ever confront our planet."