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Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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Some models show that big swaths of the equatorial regions and the "monsoon belt" may become uninhabitable without AC because wet bulb temperatures will exceed 30C which is around the point where humans are no longer able to cool themselves. Since the global south is also less developed on average it means the electrical grid demand currently can't possibly handle that level of demand.