One of the most notorious billionaire pontificators on the climate change boondoggle just did an about-face and told the eco-extremists screeching Armageddon to take a chill pill.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shocked the political sphere by completely skewering the leftist narrative that we’re all going to die from climate change in a few years in an October 28 blog post.
Gates first outlined the doomist narrative: “‘In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.” Then came the kicker: “Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise.”
Okay, who is this guy and what did he do with Bill Gates?
“Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals,” Gates wrote. He continued to stipulate that the alarmist movement at both the governmental and grassroots level is “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.”
Gates further caveated that “Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare.” Anyone reading Gates’ comments would think this was an excerpt from one of Bjorn Lomborg’s books, not one of the premier icons of the whole push to decarbonize the world.
What’s wild about this whole story is that this isn’t the first time Gates has pulled the rug right from underneath the climate alarmists’ feet. In 2022, Gates clapped back at the climate “moral crusade” of leftists who were trying to overhaul people’s lifestyles full stop. “Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we’ll just basically change human desires, I think that that’s too difficult,” Gates said during a Bloomberg Zero podcast. But he’s the same person who dropped a fortune trying to get the plebeians to eat synthetic meat! In February 2021, Gates told the MIT Technology Review that “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.”
Sheesh. This guy changes positions more than people do in their sleep.
Gates is literally the author of the alarmist book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021). Just four years ago, Gates was backing a dystopian geoengineering venture to spray dust into the atmosphere to block the sun because, er, why not? He also was involved in directly pressuring then-Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) into supporting President Joe Biden’s outrageous climate bill in August 2022.
So is Gates truly red-pilled now or is something more nefarious afoot? Unfortunately, Gates’s dramatic shift on climate change leaves open many more questions than answers.
