Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.
The billionaire does not appear to have publicly addressed the disaster in Jamaica, which extended throughout the Caribbean, with Melissa having killed dozens across Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. And his overall point, frankly, does not hold up to scrutiny.
Gates isn’t alone; climate change has slipped down the world’s priority list in the past few years—and it shows. Governments and corporations are shelving emissions goals, budgets are being redirected from climate initiatives to warfare, the media is pivoting away from climate journalism, and even activists are urging a softer, more “hopeful” tone. It all signals a vibe shift in how we talk about climate change, reframing it from the existential risk it actually poses to a less urgent, peripheral issue—even as the floodwaters reach our front doors.
Why the fuck are we going to Bill Gates for his take on climate change? Man… people are desperate to pin shit on whoever they can to manufacture hate.
Dude has given over one hundred billion dollars to charity. He may not be a saint, but I’d be willing to bet that he’s donated far more than the entirety of the population of lemmy has ever given.
Prove me wrong.
The money he siphoned off society with unethical and illegal business practices? We’re supposed to think he’s a good guy for giving some of it to his pet projects, from a pool so vast it would be literally impossible to spend on himself?
Stay mad.
That money should never have been his to give
My good you people will whine about anything.
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Some gifts wrap themselves I guess!
For the record, since they’ve now stormed off- I never once said I liked or even admired the guy. I simply ask why we’re going to Gates for his take on climate change. He’s not the authority on the subject. But when we put so much effort into manufacturing our outrage, we can expect to bypass and and all nuance in the point.
Jesus Christ, this guy has actually sipped the koolaid of the philanthropic billionaire. If he actually gave a shit, he would lobby for tax reform.
Not to mention, Bill Gates in particular is just as sketchy as all the other billionaires. He owns more arable land in the US then anyone else, hoarder…
Yawn…. Yeah. Gates is the problem.
His whole class is the problem and people listen to him. He’s why the covid vaccine he was backing is closed.
The philanthropy is a way to hide his money while getting PR.