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.
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.
Get mad.
They will, at actual problems, while you get angry simping for billionaires who consider you scum.
So… you took from what I said that I’m “skimping” for billionaires? (It’s simping, by the way)
And- my god. I’m still waiting for someone on lemmy to prove to me that they understand nuance. Nothing I said was in defense of Gates. I’m just calling out idiots that love being outraged so much that go out of their way to draw imaginary lines to connect Imaginary responsibility to people that are entirely irrelevant to the topic.
Bill gates might be an ass. But tell me, have you matched his $1BN in charitable donations?
No? Them STFU.
Go ahead and respond, but I’m not going to see it. You’re not worth the discussion, so I’m blocking you.
Do better.
God forbid someone have an autocorrect typo