Posted on 10/28/2025 12:55:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.
Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.
Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.
Although Gates said investment to battle climate change must continue, he argued that President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem, inflicting potentially lasting global damage to the fight against famine and life-threatening preventable sickness.
“Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems,” Gates wrote. “We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause.”
The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”
Gates’ shocking essay comes ahead of next month’s COP30, a global summit focused on battling climate change.
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Blah, blah, blah.....
Gates has now moved on from being a research doctor to a climate specialist.
The guy has about as much popularity as a fresh turd floating around in a white wedding punchbowl....
Go away, Gates....and don’t come back.
The big question is, what will Greta do to get attention now?
The blue sky of death.
Gates has apparently decided to leave that part of the asylum.
Gates says that philanthropists should reappropriate their giving to successful causes like Haiti.
AI, AI, AI, AI is bouncing around in his head and AI needs massive amounts of electrical generation.
This isn’t a change of heart, it’s a matter of his wallet.
Democrats desperate to pivot away from being percieved as woke promoting woke agendas and want to be the champions of the poor and working class again.
They didn’t fix the climate change problem and so they will crash the economy and social benefits in order to create a new narrative that under Trump’s watch people went hungary.
Yeah, no.
Gates’ brain has too many GOTO statements.
Because dead people feel no suffering. Am I right, Bill Gates? Up high! ✋️
He needs to tell the wooly mammoths to stop driving their SUVs.
Germany is not what it used to be....a lot of it is because they no longer have access to cheap energy.
So what other scam are these globalist control freaks cooking up to rip off tax payers.
Still the same Population Control at the root of his agenda.
The piece is filled with ambiguity. He’s still pushing the hoax but wants to spread the hysteria’s focus to the “catastrophe of Trump defunding USAid”.
Yup, windmills and solar panels won't run his AI dreams.
Global Warming is a fraud Bill.
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