Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo
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Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say
    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      6·
      4 months ago

      and apparently prevented africa from developing a similar vaccines to covid, he lobbied to have only usa made vaccines to be sold to africa, vaccine colonialism.

    • sudoshakes@reddthat.com
      3·
      5 months ago

      The foundation has saved tens of millions of lives.

      His asset portfolio is invested in everything from energy to farmland.

      As far as billionaires go, you could do a lot worse than having a portfolio diversified while saving millions of people by giving away billions of dollars.

        • sudoshakes@reddthat.com
          1·
          5 months ago

          You must be real fun at parties.

          Perfect is not the enemy of good.

          I have a retirement account that invested in broad markets as well, and some of that is in energy for funds that include those stocks in their prospectus.

          If that makes me responsible for death while I spend my days working to help save lives, you have a rather lofty set of expectations.

          In effect, anyone who takes part in paying for gas, having a target date fund in their 401k, or purchases any product from an energy company is complicit in deaths. No 10 random people in any room live up to this standard.

          The transition away from the stranglehold oil as an industry has on the world can’t and won’t happen overnight. He doesn’t run an oil company, he doesn’t work to expand drilling rights, he works to repurpose wealth into human benefit and some of that requires diversification into energy markets.

          If that is a step too far for giving away 100 billion dollars, I don’t know what to tell you.

    • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Not a lot of people I hate more than him.

      I prefer the usual villain that kills the world and doesn’t pretend to be sorry.

      This shithead did so much evil, destroyed education worldwide with his fight against open source, made the whole world poorer and now pretends to be a nice guy.

      At leat Steve jobs was an asshole all the way to his grave. I prey for you to die more quickly bill gates.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Does he know that successive climate catastrophes will set the poor back too, even with help?

    • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      The man doesn’t know the price of groceries. He’s completely detached from society and real life.

      The climate catastrophe is a whole fuckload of problems caused by humans changing the climate. It’s not just “it gets a little warmer” it’s death of habitat for various species, it’s ocean acidification, it’s weather changes, it’s crop failures.

      It’ll lead to things like mass migrations of people from places that are no longer habitable due to a loss of access to water or food, or because their homes get flooded or destroyed by severe weather. We might see camps as massive populations migrate, there’ll be infrastructure problems. We’ll see starvation, and disease, perhaps another pandemic.

      As people migrate to other places there’ll be border disputes, xenophobia, increased nationalism. We might even see people get shot as they’re trying to enter other countries, it’s not like we don’t see that already.

      The problem isn’t “it gets a little warmer” is everything else that follows.