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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Sit down and shut up, Billy.
This guy needs a straight jacket and a padded room
if bill wants to, he can feed everyone losing SNAP and have tons of money left over, couldn’t he?
Meanwhile he lives in a $200 million dollar mansion the size of a small town.
Why won’t he leave us alone??
Will no one rid us of this nuisance??
...and eat your bugs..................
This story brings one thing to mind to end at least MY suffering...
/s
Let’s eliminate mosquitoes - they kill more people than any animal on earth - I’m all for that. Start in my neighborhood
I’m suffering from your crappy products Bill.
Oh, is Bill trying another way to virtue-signal to distract from his history of sexual predation?
Ho-hum.
“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.”
Translated means culling the population to put them out of their misery using “Healthcare” methods as a means to do it.
Hey, billy, you have lots of money.
Why don’t YOU actively work to reduce human suffering?
Build hospitals, drill wells in villages, build them better housing than grass huts, teach the locals how to farm, which they apparently have forgotten how to do?
AP is oblivious to the fact that 2/3 of the world stopped caring about ANYTHING Bill Gates involves himself with, since around 2020.
BRAVE AI:
RE: Mosquitoes & Bill Gates
A mosquito laser is a proposed device designed to use lasers to kill mosquitoes, primarily aiming to reduce malaria infection rates.
The concept originated in 2007 during a brainstorming session for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where astrophysicist Lowell Wood, known for his work on the Strategic Defense Initiative (”Star Wars”), suggested using lasers to target mosquitoes.
This idea led to the development of prototypes by Intellectual Ventures, including a system known as the Photonic Fence, which uses infrared LEDs and retroreflective materials to create a detection field monitored by charge-coupled devices (CCDs).
The system identifies insects based on their size and wing beat frequency, allowing it to distinguish between species and sexes, particularly targeting female Anopheles mosquitoes that carry malaria.
The Photonic Fence, as developed by Intellectual Ventures, uses a non-lethal laser to analyze an insect and a lethal laser to kill it, with the latter potentially being a blue-violet laser similar to those in Blu-ray players.
The system is designed to minimize collateral damage by targeting only specific mosquito species and sexes, and it can theoretically kill up to 50 to 100 mosquitoes per second at a range of approximately 30 meters (100 feet).
Despite early media attention and a prototype built from consumer electronics parts, the device remained under development as of 2017 and was not deemed safe for human eyes at that time.
More recently, a new device called the Photon Matrix, developed by a team led by Jim Wong from Changzhou, China, has emerged as a crowdfunded project on Indiegogo.
This device uses LiDAR technology to detect mosquitoes within 3 milliseconds, measuring their distance, orientation, and body size, and then employs a galvanometer-directed laser to kill them.
It claims to kill up to 30 mosquitoes per second, with a range of 3 meters (9.8 ft) for the Basic Edition and 6 meters (19.7 ft) for the Pro Version.
The Photon Matrix incorporates millimeter-wave radar to detect larger objects like people and pets, preventing the laser from firing in their direction.
It can operate on a wall outlet or a rechargeable power bank, with up to 16 hours of use on a single charge.
The device is claimed to be safe for indoor and outdoor use, though its safety certifications and compliance standards remain unclear.
The company plans to begin shipping units in October 2025, with full production expected by March 2026.
In contrast, other products like the Bzigo Iris use a safe, eye-safe laser to mark the location of mosquitoes for easy manual elimination, rather than killing them directly.
Meanwhile, some commercially available devices, such as the LASER HAND Indoor Mosquito Killer, use UV light to attract mosquitoes and electrocute them, relying on physical trapping rather than lasers.
While the mosquito laser concept has evolved from early prototypes to modern crowdfunded devices, the practical deployment and real-world effectiveness of these systems are still under evaluation.
How many deaths could we prevent if we spent all the climate money on health care?
Gates forgot to mention that he owns 275,000 acres of PRODUCTIVE farmland.... the largest farmland owner in the country.
> 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. <
Putting aside how evil Gates is, that’s a very noble goal.
The problem is the corruption (and outright thievery) in these poor countries. You can send 100 tons of food to such a country. That doesn’t mean 100 tons of food will reach those who need it.
Solving that problem won’t be easy.
In speaking to liberals, you might want to define what the terms mean. For example, if someone is dead then they won’t be suffering. So, ending world suffering could have a “IT’S A COOKBOOK!” moment.
LOL
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