Although Gates said investment to battle climate change must continue, he argued that US President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577152/bill-gates-makes-a-stunning-claim-about-climate-change
He’s not wrong. Trump’s cuts to USAID will cause the death of millions in quite a short time.
and yet climate change is still an even more long-term important problem
Bill Gates said too many resources are going toward climate change instead of issues like welfare and poverty…
In the letter, Gates called out the “doomsday view” of climate change and said leaders need to make a “strategic pivot” to focus on issues that have the “greatest impact on human welfare.”
“It’s the best way to ensure that everyone gets a chance to live a healthy and productive life no matter where they’re born, and no matter what kind of climate they’re born into,” he wrote.
The “generative AI” part of the headline is not particularly relevant to the article, but is a great test to see who reads the article before rushing to comment.
Bill Gates was recently at the meeting where all the US tech oligarchs kissed Trump’s ring. The article changes nothing about how Bill Gates is very much part of the problem, and this “change” is exclusively based on his oligarch reasons.
Bill Gates knows better than most that there’s enough money in the world to try and tackle both climate change and poverty, and still leave him a billionaire.
I think the wording that really bugs me in his quote is “healthy and productive life”. If all the alarms are true we’re already fucked on climate, so he’s concerned about maintaining a labor force.
It’s not money. It’s timing. You really want UBI before automation. There’s never been a push for AI and robots like this before.
Everyone wants UBI but no one explains how that shit would work. And you can bet that you would only get enough to barely subsist in such a system as you are just being paid fake money to exist. That’s no world for humans to thrive in.
I think the idea is if you’re guaranteed a subsistence pay, then you are free to devote your time to creating something. Art, a business, a community, whatever that makes your life meaningful, rather than devoting 90% of your time working for someone elses profit, travelling to work, resting to be able to work, and eating to continue to work.
You want to talk about bare subsistence, that is what most people are doing now in terms of time as a resource.
In our system what would prevent basic necessities from costing “UBI + some amount” after it’s implemented? If this is something that you want to happen, you won’t get it by just discussing the benefits while ignoring/downvoting any sort of critical discussion of it.
A cynical view would be that he realizes that we as a species are doomed, and wants everyone to at least be comfortable as the world becomes unlivable for us.
Actual headline:
Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift: Interview
Cool uncle mask falling off. Familiar face emerges.
Ask me how I know you only read the headline.
more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,”
The headline is deliberately misleading and honestly should be corrected or removed.
Please put in slightly more effort next time, thanks.
We read more than the headline. His argument makes no sense at all. Please do yourself the fabour of putting more effort into your replies.
Kinda shocked that after all the recent info coming out he thinks that it’s not going to be a “climate disaster” lmao. Headline is deliberately misleading but that doesn’t make bill less of an idiot.
The problem with “effective altruism” ideology, it’s dependent on the whims of the wealthy.
By what logic? Can’t normal people donate money to effective causes?
His philanthropy was always a response to how much people hated him because of Microsoft. He is so thin-skinned and can’t stand even legitimate grievances against him.
hes also in epstein files, thats why hes been going hard to reivent his image. His vaccine thing has been accused of nothing more than a scheme by african countries.
I’ll take a thin skinned billionaire that donates some of those billions to feel warm and fuzzy over a thick skinned one that laughs from a balcony as people lose their homes.
I’ll take neither. Billionaires can all go under the guillotine.
Well sure, in optimism land, why not go for them all. In the real world, that wouldn’t be possible given the amount of insulation they have and protection they can afford.
My meaning here is that if the choice were presented between guillotining one of them that donates money occasionally, and another that doesn’t so much as pretend to give a damn, I’m going to point at the latter.
“He is a learned man” -I don’t think I like anything else about him
Someone got their name purged from the Epstein papers, it seems.
But… but, he’s one of the “good billionaires”, Reddit told me so. He’S A phiLAnthroPISt!
To those friends and people that would always say that to me, I always said he just has a good PR team. His malaria work is genuinely good, but still not even a drop in the ocean of the good he could actually do if he contributed his fair share.
First, no editorialized headlines. Second, I have no opinion on the guy but he’s sounding more just wrong than evil here.
He was at the techbro oligarch meeting with Trump, kissing his ring recently. The guy is definitely evil.
I believe he was anti green energy before, then made a pivot, and I guess he’s back.
*Now that I read it
In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’
What he said isn’t exactly wrong in and of itself. Only in the context of when and why he said it. Of course we have to keep human welfare in mind, but the climate crisis has reached a point where all human welfare in the not so distant future depends on how heavily we address environmental issues right now. And he’s only saying that to save face.
I think too many resources are spent on Bill Gates
Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity. That’s not to say it isn’t real or that it’s not a serious problem worth solving, but many people seem to believe it’s equivalent to an asteroid wiping out the entire human species and rendering the earth inhabitable - and that’s simply not true. That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.
Exaggerating real issues like this is extremely unhelpful. It creates unnecessary anxiety for people who take those claims at face value, and it erodes trust in science once they realize the reality is less apocalyptic than what they were led to believe.
Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity.
It most definitely is.
That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.
No it definitely isn’t the consensus.
boomers gon boom, fucking dickhead
I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAwUxZ5nfwLoved how he started his answer by clutching his ring finger. His friendship cost him his marriage.
friendship to epstein.
I watched this when it came out and the discomfort coming from his side of the screen was palpable.
They are ALL abhorrent cunts that will, one day soon, face angry mobs that will decide their fate.
Rip this 5G shit out of me. This man does not deserve to know my location or give me cellular service for getting a vaccine AND denying climate change.
What the fuck? 😭😭
He’s probably right. Slowing down climate change is pretty much hopeless. Better to replace humans with robots that can handle the heat.
I didn’t think we’re going to Talos Principle ourselves out of this one, Pip
Kindly GTFO.
Do you think it’s ok to stick your hand in a toaster that’s 200 degrees then pull it out after a second? What you’re advocating for is “well your hand is already in the toaster, so might as well keep it in the toaster and turn the heat up to 600 degrees since it’s in there already.”
Such a dumb/bot/troll take.
Would you try prevent a truck from rolling down a hill by standing infront of it or would you try jump into the cab to pull the breaks?
Yea anyone can say stupid ass shit you aren’t special.
That’s… not what the OP said… I think you need to read it
