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It's the beginning of the end of the renewables fantasy, but there will be no apology — no admission they were wrong, or that thousands upon millions of people have suffered because of climate sorcery.
Watch as the billionaire who lectured us from private jets, pivots into word salad. Now he says we still have to solve climate change (whatever that means), but the doomsday view is wrong, and it "will not be the end of civilization." He's suddenly turned into a kind of Bjorn Lomborg. Forget
mitigation, say hello to Adaptation.
On the cusp of COP30 in Brazil, Bill Gates has launched a life raft for his reputation — a 17 page memo called
Three tough truths about climateBill Gates can see what's coming (a reckoning for the renewables debacle), so he is repositioning himself so he doesn't go down with the ship. Indeed, he's almost writing an escape plan for the whole Blob. In a nutshell, he's admitting between the lines that wind and solar power are unaffordable, and since climate change won't actually be that catastrophic, everyone should calm down while we invent technologies, and in the mean time, get back to stopping people from starving. Wouldn't you know, he says
"Health and prosperity are the best defense against climate change." (That's Truth #3 ).
What he's not saying is that he and his friends wasted untold billions (maybe trillions) of dollars of our money installing wind and solar panels which aren't very good. He is not joining those dots.
We still need that breakthrough mythical technology to save us from the climate monster.
Three tough truths about climate
...though climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.
Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it's diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.
He's still painting himself as a savior, of course:
If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, "I'll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don't understand the suffering that exists today." -- AP News
Now, at long last, he says the first priority should be to prevent suffering in the here and now. Which is all very noble, but where were you Bill for the last ten years when people in Africa needed coal plants — you were telling them to invest in wind and solar.
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