Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift: Interview
Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift: Interview
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Bill Gates said too many resources are going toward climate change instead of issues like welfare and poverty…
In the letter, Gates called out the “doomsday view” of climate change and said leaders need to make a “strategic pivot” to focus on issues that have the “greatest impact on human welfare.”
“It’s the best way to ensure that everyone gets a chance to live a healthy and productive life no matter where they’re born, and no matter what kind of climate they’re born into,” he wrote.
The “generative AI” part of the headline is not particularly relevant to the article, but is a great test to see who reads the article before rushing to comment.
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Bill Gates knows better than most that there's enough money in the world to try and tackle both climate change and poverty, and still leave him a billionaire.
I think the wording that really bugs me in his quote is "healthy and productive life". If all the alarms are true we're already fucked on climate, so he's concerned about maintaining a labor force.
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Actual headline:
Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift: Interview
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Bill Gates was recently at the meeting where all the US tech oligarchs kissed Trump's ring. The article changes nothing about how Bill Gates is very much part of the problem, and this "change" is exclusively based on his oligarch reasons.
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Although Gates said investment to battle climate change must continue, he argued that US President Donald Trump's cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577152/bill-gates-makes-a-stunning-claim-about-climate-change
He's not wrong. Trump's cuts to USAID will cause the death of millions in quite a short time.
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and yet climate change is still an even more long-term important problem
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Someone got their name purged from the Epstein papers, it seems.
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Bill Gates charitable donations do real good but they are paltry sums compared to what taxing him would do. Its best to view billionaire donations as at best a guilty conscience and at worst insincere marketing.
This isn't an 'either or' question and framing it that way is deliberate. As though his money alone couldn't fix both issues for years.
Tax the rich and make them taste reality again. They need to be taxed, its good for them. Ease their guilty consciences of all this sinful monetary excess.
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His "donations" are to his own charity, that he then gets to use to reduce his tax burden. Billionaire philanthropy is another avenue of profit for them, nothing else.
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Not to mention plum jobs for friends and family.
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The organization he donates from donates 5% of that money to fight climate change and 95% is invested into fossil fuels. Its just to clean his image nothing more.
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But... but, he's one of the "good billionaires", Reddit told me so. He'S A phiLAnthroPISt!
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To those friends and people that would always say that to me, I always said he just has a good PR team. His malaria work is genuinely good, but still not even a drop in the ocean of the good he could actually do if he contributed his fair share.
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Bill Gates, the guy who stole MS-DOS.
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Ahhh good old QDOS. What a piece of shit.
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Billionaire's Disease is indiscriminate. We must all work to end its plague upon society.
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Don't worry, climate scientists who have investigated this issue for decades now, bill Gates says it'll be fine
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I believe he was anti green energy before, then made a pivot, and I guess he's back.
*Now that I read it
In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’
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What he said isn't exactly wrong in and of itself. Only in the context of when and why he said it. Of course we have to keep human welfare in mind, but the climate crisis has reached a point where all human welfare in the not so distant future depends on how heavily we address environmental issues right now. And he's only saying that to save face.
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What do the other "subscription rich" think?
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"He is a learned man" -I don't think I like anything else about him
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First, no editorialized headlines. Second, I have no opinion on the guy but he's sounding more just wrong than evil here.
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He was at the techbro oligarch meeting with Trump, kissing his ring recently. The guy is definitely evil.
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boomers gon boom, fucking dickhead
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Dude wants AI for more money. He doesn’t give a fuck.
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Too much money makes you abhorrent and eventually evil. Notice how not ONE of the nearly 1000 billionaires that reside in the USA have stepped up to offer assistance to help feed the people who will be starving next month. I would be sick with myself if I had that wealth and did nothing. These people have forgotten where they came from. Is it time, yet, to remind them?
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"If i say what these filthy peasants want, will they forget i was on Epstein list ?"
- Billy Gator, probably
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Is there proof he is on the list or are we just throwing conspiracies out there?
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He loved hanging out with Epstein, whom he described as having an "intriguing lifestyle".
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I think too many resources are spent on Bill Gates
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My buddy has been getting tons of testing and high skill engineering equipment from facilities closed down after Bill Gates pulled funding. I guess he’s pivoting research because of Trump. My buddy has warehouse worth the growing equipment now from one of his labs plus tons of other stuff.
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They are ALL abhorrent cunts that will, one day soon, face angry mobs that will decide their fate.
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I'll just leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAwUxZ5nfw-
Loved how he started his answer by clutching his ring finger. His friendship cost him his marriage.
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friendship to epstein.
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I watched this when it came out and the discomfort coming from his side of the screen was palpable.
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Rip this 5G shit out of me. This man does not deserve to know my location or give me cellular service for getting a vaccine AND denying climate change.
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What the fuck? 😭😭
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Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity. That’s not to say it isn’t real or that it’s not a serious problem worth solving, but many people seem to believe it’s equivalent to an asteroid wiping out the entire human species and rendering the earth inhabitable - and that’s simply not true. That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.
Exaggerating real issues like this is extremely unhelpful. It creates unnecessary anxiety for people who take those claims at face value, and it erodes trust in science once they realize the reality is less apocalyptic than what they were led to believe.
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Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity.
It most definitely is.
That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.
No it definitely isn't the consensus.
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He's probably right. Slowing down climate change is pretty much hopeless. Better to replace humans with robots that can handle the heat.
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I didn't think we're going to Talos Principle ourselves out of this one, Pip
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Kindly GTFO.
Do you think it's ok to stick your hand in a toaster that's 200 degrees then pull it out after a second? What you're advocating for is "well your hand is already in the toaster, so might as well keep it in the toaster and turn the heat up to 600 degrees since it's in there already."
Such a dumb/bot/troll take.
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Cool uncle mask falling off. Familiar face emerges.
Ask me how I know you only read the headline.
The headline is deliberately misleading and honestly should be corrected or removed.
Please put in slightly more effort next time, thanks.
Kinda shocked that after all the recent info coming out he thinks that it's not going to be a "climate disaster" lmao. Headline is deliberately misleading but that doesn't make bill less of an idiot.
We read more than the headline. His argument makes no sense at all. Please do yourself the fabour of putting more effort into your replies.
His philanthropy was always a response to how much people hated him because of Microsoft. He is so thin-skinned and can’t stand even legitimate grievances against him.
I'll take a thin skinned billionaire that donates some of those billions to feel warm and fuzzy over a thick skinned one that laughs from a balcony as people lose their homes.
hes also in epstein files, thats why hes been going hard to reivent his image. His vaccine thing has been accused of nothing more than a scheme by african countries.