A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates puts the “big man” in the middle of spending on the poor, some climate scientists say.
Published last week, the Tech Billionaire’s mission called a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on emissions and the prevention of poverty and suffering. It was quickly picked up by the far right, including Donald Trump, who hailed it as a necessary backpedaling of climate efforts.
“I (we!) just won the battle on climate change. Bill Gates finally admitted that he was completely wrong on the issue,” the President posted on social media.
Gates said a Talk to Axios on Monday night Trump’s post was a “rewarded mistake in the memo” and he increased his climate and health funding. But he added that climate aid in poor countries often chooses between two issues in the areas.
“It’s a numerical figure in a world with finite resources,” Gates said.
But funding for emissions reductions doesn’t come at the cost of eradicating hunger or poverty, says Zeke Hausatist of Berkeley on Earth.
“Where I think I do not agree with the gates twice is this idea that by taking money from the climate suddenly money we reporters in a Tuesday Press Bething. “We don’t have to live in a zero-order world.”
In his memo, Gates wrote that global warming “will not lead to human deaths”. This misunderstanding of the warnings of climate scientists, said Katharine Hayhine Hayhoe, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy.
“I have not seen a single scientific paper that chooses that the human race will disappear … it is a straw man,” he said. “He said it as scientists say, and we don’t: what we say is that suffering increases with each measure of warming.”
The memo from an “influential person who controls a lot of money” hinges on a “Global Origin where all Scientific Worldwide”
“Really, there’s a whole hell of a lot of bad things that can happen in between,” he said.
Climate policies have helped the world in disastrous climate scenarios, but the world’s current track will still lead to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering due to an increase in the level of suffering to the increase in the level of suffering due to the increase in the level of suffering due to the increase in the level of suffering due to the increase in the level of suffering due to the increase in the level of suffering due to the increase in the level of suffering due to the rise in sea level, the flow of sea level, the flow of sea level, flows, floods and other dangers, said Swain.
“This is a disaster, not only for people living in the whole country or for poor countries, but also for rich countries,” he said. “It’s a disaster for all the world’s ecosystems.”
The Gate memo is “disconnected from the way the world works”, Swain said. For example, people when the world is warming, “Some outdoor work should stop during the hottest hours of the day, and better cooling systems and better cooling systems and better cooling systems and higher heat and heat events”.
Although everyone should have air conditioning”, the truth is that many parts of the world do not have it, said Swain.
“If you think the climate is not important, you don’t agree with the memo. If you think the climate is the only factor and the gates of reporters last week. “It’s kind of this pragmatic view of a person who is, you know, trying to raise money and innovation that helps poor countries.”
Tuesday’s talk about the memo comes days before the Cop30 global climate summit begins in Brazil. The talks will present a chance to really get a handle on the climate crisis, Hayhoe said.
“We need to talk about stopping fossil fuels,” he said.