Posted on 02/07/2023 6:56:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Bill Gates does not agree that using a private jet and campaigning on the issue of climate change represents a contradiction open to allegations of hypocrisy.
During a wide-ranging interview with the BBC aired at the end of last week, Gates was asked for his view on the charge that a climate change campaigner using a private jet to travel around the world was a hypocrite.
“Well, I buy the gold standard of, funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint,” the Microsoft co-founder, being interviewed in Kenya, replied.
“And I spend billions of dollars on ... climate innovation. So, you know, should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?”
The billionaire added that he was “comfortable with the idea that, not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy Group is spending, that I’m part of the solution.”
During his interview with the BBC, Gates also spoke about the role developed nations needed to play when it came to reducing emissions.
“What the rich countries owe to the entire world is that they need to get their emissions down to zero as fast as they can,” he said. “But that’s not enough because they, you know, they have so … much in the way of resources.”
“They also need to invent new approaches so that the cost of being green, the cost of not having emissions in all areas, gets down to be zero.”
“So a new way of making cement or steel, you know, electric passenger cars, that’s all in the rich countries.”
“And they’ve got to solve it so they can turn to the middle-income countries and say…
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TLDR: “Shut up, serfs!”
Solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. FUBG
No, he sees it for what it is, the wealthy elite that can do as they damn well please, and the rest of us who damn well better do what they tell us to do.
They're redistributing wealth with your hard earned money.
When does he suggest starting “The Hunger Games”?
Bill Gates:
“I’m part of the solution”
He is part of the problem—a large part of the problem.
Why do I hear FJB speaking when I read his ridiculous and rehearsed BS. Lies, damned lies and statistics. The thing with Gates and the rest of the Oligarchs of the West is, they give us no statistics to prove their assertions.
I don’t know the size of his soul, but it is empty and hollow. He has one chance, turn to Christ, give away his billions and follow HIM.
People like to blame this on Lucifer, but it is ALL mankind at this point. Wait until “The Kings of the East” and elsewhere are loosed. Then we will find out how deep the corruption is.
He STOLE a computer language, his dad was in charge of the bankruptcy liquidation of IBM software. His daddy was to sell it to the highest bidder which was Bill, with money “loaned to him. The cost for the framework of Microsoft was $50,000.
Ahhh, another gift from the church of ???, Indulgences.
Yup
His Dad died of Old Timer’s. It’s already eating away at his son. Schadenfreude.
We are the horses and ducks in animal farm, and he is one of the pigs.
Bill should learn all about software. Neat stuff.
Lucy Van Pelt used to kill germs by having kids cough on the sidewalk and then she’d stomp all over the germs released with an angry look on her face. Bill Gates is the second coming of Peanuts.
“Bill Gates on why he’ll carry on using private jets and campaigning on climate change”
‘cause he’s too important to take Greyhound?
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