Why are they saying this now?
Is it the 100th anniversary of this story?
Gates just wanted to “off” 90% of the population. Problem solved?
That's an easy one. Just as during the Apollo missions, gorgeous photos of the beautiful Earth are being sent back by Artemis and being marveled at by millions. This gives the Left a chance to take out their dusty old '60s and '70s propaganda manual and begin unleashing guilt-inducing sob stories about how humans (especially, of course, USA humans) are dooming our beautiful planet to whole new generations.
Just as they pulled out their dusty '60s and '70s "Racism" manual during the Obama years, and especially during "Black Lives Matter," they know the US has a whole lot of low-info people who'll do their bidding, if they feed them enough emotional BS.
The Left has nothing new to offer, at all, but they're getting a lot of mileage out of dragging up all their decades-old gaslighting.
Yes, Ehrlich was yammering about this in the early 1970s. But there is a whole new generation that needs to be made fools of, so here they go again.