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Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering
AP News ^ | October 28, 2025 | JENNIFER McDERMOTT

Posted on 10/28/2025 6:00:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.

A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world, Gates said. In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.

If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”

The Microsoft co-founder spends most of his time now on the goals of the Gates Foundation, which has poured tens of billions of dollars into health care, education and development initiatives worldwide, including combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He started Breakthrough Energy in 2015 to speed up innovation in clean energy.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Health/Medicine; Weather
KEYWORDS: billgates; climatehoax; cop30; globalwarminghoax; globohomo; nevermind; worldgovernment
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To: Red Badger

One day Gates will face his own blue screen.


21 posted on 10/28/2025 6:30:55 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Red Badger

Why do I hear a Submarine klaxon when reading the title, “Ahooga, Ahooga, Ahooga” the Climate Change scam has been discovered! Time to switch to “we care about people scam.... repeat “we care about people’s suffering!”. Ahooga!


22 posted on 10/28/2025 6:32:01 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: 11th_VA

*paging Rachel Carson


23 posted on 10/28/2025 6:32:14 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Red Badger

Hold on...he may have finally come to grips with reality.

We can’t change Mother Nature so focus should move to adaptation. Proper adaption will reduce human suffering. You’re almost there, Bill.


24 posted on 10/28/2025 6:33:51 AM PDT by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!........................


25 posted on 10/28/2025 6:34:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

STFU, Bill.

Nobody cares what you think.


26 posted on 10/28/2025 6:34:56 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: Red Badger

I have had enough with the lectures from this creepy weirdo...


27 posted on 10/28/2025 6:35:31 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Red Badger

And to Bill Gates reducing suffering means reducing the population.


28 posted on 10/28/2025 6:37:20 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: no-to-illegals

If he genuinely cared, yes he could feed every snap person in the US for a year and not miss a beat. I would bet.


29 posted on 10/28/2025 6:38:50 AM PDT by albie
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To: Red Badger

“If given a choice between eradicating malaria...”

Use DDT. Simple. Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) is one of the biggest mass murderers of the 20th century with her eco lies that led to making DDT illegal.


30 posted on 10/28/2025 6:44:17 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: 100%FEDUP

Yep, absolutely...


31 posted on 10/28/2025 6:48:33 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Red Badger
, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria.

How nice of you, Bill. He thinks he can control these trade-offs? Who does he think he is? God?

32 posted on 10/28/2025 6:49:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Red Badger

Is Bill going to open factories to produce VX now?


33 posted on 10/28/2025 6:52:55 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

The suffering has been caused by him.


34 posted on 10/28/2025 7:03:43 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Red Badger

So, we’re going back to Windows XP?


35 posted on 10/28/2025 7:11:12 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Red Badger

Someone misspelled “population”!


36 posted on 10/28/2025 7:12:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Red Badger

Bill Gates,
You could stop human suffering by not supporting or engaging in pedophrlia.
You could stop human suffering by preventing a wasteful and painful government shutdown by refusing to support democrats.
You could use your wealth now to support ‘essential’ government like military pay, ICE pay, and air traffic controller pay.

Like so many liberals, you don’t want to do the hard things to stop
Suffering, just use the crisis for self importance and make other people pay.


37 posted on 10/28/2025 7:15:16 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan

Bill Gates,
You could stop human suffering by making Windows Open Source..............


38 posted on 10/28/2025 7:17:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

How many hospitals has Bill Gates built?.


39 posted on 10/28/2025 7:19:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

The only suffering is having to listen to these insane Climate Crisis Nutjobs


40 posted on 10/28/2025 7:24:03 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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