Maybe Bill Gates hasn’t quite become a full climate-change denier, but he just made a bunch of deniers very happy by spouting modern denier talking points. We can’t afford to listen to him.

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1. At this point any meaningful climate change policies would threaten his investments. That’s the only reason he’s changing his tune.

2. A lot of people that didn’t actually read a word of what he said. Calling Bill Gates a climate-change denier is absurdly false. He wrote a book about it just four years ago.

3. I can understand the controversy over some of his points but I sincerely hope that nobody here will take issue with his statement that “Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise”

4. Whenever you tell somebody concerned with climate change that there might be good news, they get angry

5. We shouldn’t take the words of anyone with a bunker seriously.

6. I guess he wants to be invited to more white house events. His statements are factually wrong. Climate change is a civilization risk (high) and extinction risk (lower, non-zero).

   The only serious debate is the timeframes. He’s still in the camp that thinks CO2 release is gonna drop soon and dramatically reduce in this century. Meanwhile, last year had records CO2 increase.

7. We can’t afford his software either… so that tracks.

8. The first obvious reaction of anyone could be: Why not both, keep fighting climate change and help people.

   As others stated, this shift in what he says smells very political and financial.

9. Posts like this is why many people cannot take climate focused people seriously.
   One of the most philanthropic people currently alive said some things you do not like, put some things into perspective and tried to give a reasonable estimate of where we stand and where we are going, and this post is the result.

   You cant fight everyone that has a slightly different opinion or analysis of the situation if you want to compete with people that deny it outright.

10. we are so cooked (pun intended) lol

11. So he want take more realistic approach therefore he is a traitor got it.

12. he’s not a denier.

    he’s just changing his goal because of objective reality.

    we can all wish we lived in a better wor but we don’t.

    the world isn’t going to do the things we need to do to stop this. so we should brace for impact and limit the damage to the most vulnerable.

13. Progressives when faced with nuance that doesn’t align 100% with their priors: crucify this man!

    He’s done more for humanity than almost all living people.

14. Should we ever listen to billionaires?

15. Bill Gates is a see you next tuesday

16. I am begging people to just click through to Gates’s blog post and read Gates’s own words on the topic.

    I think the problem here is that we’ve allowed the climate change narrative to be hijacked by intransigent doomers. The facts of climate change tell us that it is a serious problem but not a doomsday scenario. We have made significant technological strides towards eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. We can win this fight. In the meantime, there will be substantial warming. And many people around the world will need help coping with a less hospitable climate.

    Gates is being measured and precise with his words, and the picture he paints is very accurate to the facts as we know them now. He’s a doomsday denier, not a climate change denier.

17. He took a look at how the pocketbook was going to look like in a few years of real change, and switched his tone up right quick. 

18. What is frustrating is that many people, including journalists writing these bogus articles as clickbait are misrepresenting what he wrote.

    He said that we have made significant gains in fighting climate change and that we have to keep up the fight but with the progress we have made, poverty and sickness are now once again greater threats to humanity than global warming and we have to spend resources on those issues as well.

    What he proposes is that we put the same effort into all three of those issues. We have proven with the fight against climate change that we can do it. So let’s do it for the other two issues as well.

    But of course, this is not going to generate as much clicks as proclaiming Gates is suddenly a climate denier…

19. We can’t listen to ANYONE who is actively invested in AI to have any unbiased input on climate change.

20. I’m doing what I can not to make it worst, I have no control over the rest of the world. I’m not wasting time worrying about it.

21. Activists have never been very good at seeing the full picture. This sub proves that.

22. He was one of the first people to bend the knee, and he has the resources to fight back.

    Coward, wonder if it’s cause he’s under the Epstein records and is too afraid to speak out.

23. His admission that climate change was previously not human focused is noted.

24. He’s just facing the truth. We completely failed at stopping CO2 emissions and, in fact, they’re increasing.

    There’s no stopping this now so he’s just getting on board with reality. Sorry everyone. I don’t want it to be true either, but it is.

25. He’s a billionaire, I don’t think we should listen to him on anything.

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