Respectfully, Bill Gates Should Shut Up

Bill Gates recently published a blog post downplaying the urgency of near-term climate change emissions goals, arguing that more emphasis should be placed on poverty and disease. He suggested there is too much focus on "doomsday outlooks" from the climate community and asserted that global warming needs to be considered in terms of overall human welfare. This statement comes as a powerful hurricane slammed Jamaica, and numerous other countries in the Caribbean experienced devastating effects from the storm, which was supercharged by warmer ocean waters. Gates's blog post did not acknowledge the role of climate change in exacerbating such disasters or the impact of his own company's AI expansion on fossil fuel consumption. The article criticizes Gates's stance... download the app to read more