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Bill Gates take on Climate change
(fortune.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
They should be taxed on 100% of that surplus money and we should use it to fund the programs we collectively agree to as a society.
The benevolence of billionaires isn't how we should be making these decisions. Its whitewashing the fact that they have dismantled our societies ability to govern itself through taxation and public spending.
Not to mention Bill Gates "philanthropy" has also had disastrous consequences.
So no. Fuck Bill Gates. He doesn't get a pass because his marketing team is more effective at whitewashing his wage theft than Elon Musk.
Dog bill gates forced the COVID vaccine to be patented so he could profit off of it.