Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures, now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” in a stunning reversal.
Gates, 70, who has sunk billions of his vast fortune into initiatives ostensibly meant to combat global warming, penned a lengthy blog post this week urging a shift away from the “doomsday outlook” many climate activists have adopted to terrify nonbelievers into seeing things their way.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he wrote. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”
Gates, who just four years ago authored a book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” and once said climate change “could be worse” than the COVID-19 pandemic, now argues “we should measure success by our impact on human welfare more than our impact on the global temperature.”
The control-alt-delete reset is a stark departure from his previous assertions that avoiding a climate disaster “will be one of the greatest challenges humans have ever taken on — greater than landing on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than putting a computer on every desk.”
The centibillionaire philanthropist’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funneled huge sums of cash to companies working on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, including bankrolling a Mr. Burns-esque technology to dim the sun and redirect its rays out of the atmosphere.
He’s taken criticism for flying around the globe to trumpet our impending doom due to climate change in a $70 million private jet that spews around 450 gallons of fuel per hour, a hypocrisy he acknowledges in his post but assures he offsets his own staggering carbon footprint “with legitimate carbon credits.”
