Bill Gates, who is worth an estimated $7 billion, recently seemed to backtrack on some of his prior statements about climate change.
“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” said Gates at a recent event. “The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine.”
Gates made the remark at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, which was also attended by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and British Prince William.
A few days later, at a New York Times event, he made a similarly climate-related remark. As Gates put it, “there are effects on humanity, the planet less so,” and “no temperate country is going to become uninhabitable.”
Gates added at the NY Times event that if world leaders are going to implement climate polices, it cannot be achieved by using “brute force.”
“If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living,’” Gates remarked.
“Without innovation, it’s unlikely, particularly in middle-income countries, that the brute force approach will be successful.”
He did not provide specifics, but he did call for increased support from both political parties for legislation addressing climate change.
“You can’t have a climate policy that when one party is in charge goes full speed ahead and stops cold,” he said. “These are 30-year investments in steel factories.”
“It’s pretty clear we’re not going to go to extreme scenarios,” he added. “Emissions will peak and then start to go down. They won’t go down as fast as we want them to and so the temperature will continue to rise and once the temperature has risen it doesn’t go down very quickly, unless you do massive carbon removal.”
Furthermore, Mr. Gates claimed in the NY Times event that he is “the person who’s doing the most on climate in terms of the innovation and in how we can square multiple goals,” implying that he is an authority on climate change issues because of the money he has donated to the cause.
Among Mr. Gates’s previous climate-related warnings was a prediction that by 2020, climate change would be responsible for more human deaths and suffering than the current COVID-19 pandemic.
At the time, he remarked that “as awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse,” adding that international leaders must “accelerate our efforts now” to “avoid a climate disaster.”
Mr. Gates is also the largest private owner of farmland in the United States, having amassed a vast portfolio of agricultural property over the past few years. Mr. Gates has said that conventional farming methods have a negative impact on the environment, and he has advocated for the use of synthetic or plant-based meat as a solution to this problem.
Source: Resistthemainstream.com
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