US EditionBill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering
Gates calls for focusing on poverty reduction, health improvement, and adaptation in poorest countries rather than only near-term emissions cuts in climate policy, ahead of COP30.
- On Tuesday, Bill Gates published a memo on Gates Notes urging a strategic pivot on climate policy and called on leaders to rethink progress ahead of COP30 next month in Brazil.
- Pointing to the 'doomsday outlook,' Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, warns the climate community overfocuses on near-term emissions, urging funds shift toward poverty and poor health amid aid cuts.
- Gates proposed accepting a 0.1 degree temperature rise to eradicate malaria, emphasizing `Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise` in his memo.
- Although he won't attend the United Nations climate meeting in Belém, Brazil, starting Nov. 10, Bill Gates praised the summit's emphasis on adaptation and urged UN and global leaders to lower technology costs.
- Analysts flagged Gates's tech bets and organisational changes, noting scientists including Michael Mann and Michael Oppenheimer warned his messaging downplays urgency and pointed to his backing of modular nuclear reactors and geoengineering alongside Breakthrough Energy cutbacks and redirected Gates Foundation funding.
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About That Bill Gates Climate Memo
Shortly before COP30 talks begin in Brazil, tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has launched a “narrative grenade” into the discourse of climate politics by publishing a lengthy memo calling for a rethink of how the climate crisis is framed and addressed. Gates calls for a “strategic pivot” in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve. Both social and traditional media were ablaze with erroneous assertions about Gates’ suppos…
Bill Gates Has Discovered Something More Profitable Than the Climate Apocalypse – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
In recent days, the tech magnate has made headlines by distancing himself from the climate apocalypse fan club. Many analysts have praised the supposed return to sanity of the man who forever changed computing in the last century; however, there’s a catch. Bill Gates hasn’t suddenly become sensible — he’s simply realized that Greta Thunberg’s apocalyptic style, the same one he has embraced since publishing his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaste…
Bill Gates Wants Us to Do Less About the Climate Crisis
Billionaire Bill Gates says we should back away from urgent emissions cuts and bet instead on tomorrow’s tech. But unless that innovation is democratically controlled, it will serve the same interests that caused the climate crisis in the first place.
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siliconvalley.comBill Gates tells an audience at Caltech that the doomsday scenario is wrong
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries most affected by the Earth’s warming climate, he said during a talk at Caltech on Monday, Nov. 3. “Fortunately, although climate is an extremely serious problem, it is not of that nature: it will not end civilization. It’s a very serious threat to …
Bill Gates warns: apocalyptic doomsday theories are harmful, let's focus on human-centered, scientific solutions.
The purposeful misinterpretation of Bill Gate’s climate message to world leaders
Bill Gates is correct to call for greater effort to alleviate human suffering. However, that neither requires nor justifies less effort to protect the atmosphere and the other environmental assets that support all life.
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