So, everybody is going crazy over Bill Gate's recent 'memo': A warmer world will hurt this group more than any other
Read the details yourself, but Gates basically presents the classic mitigation vs adaptation strawman argument that goes something like this: "For most people, the greatest problems are poverty and disease, not climate change and therefore we should focus on those, not climate change."
Ok, Bill: let's talk:
- That's just a false dicotomy - we can & should focus on both.
- Climate change is a threat and harm amplifier.
- The greatest impacts of climate change today & in the future will happen in the poorest countries.
- A 2.5 - 3 C warmer world will be radiacally different from our world today.
Mike Mann has a nice World View piece in Nature: Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction. Mike starts with the classic Stephen Schneider statement: when it comes to climate change, the "end of the world" and "good for you" are the "two lowest-probability outcomes". Read the rest!
Predictably, climate deniers jumped on this & claimed that Bill now supports them in rejecting the climate change hoax: “I (WE) just won the war on the climate change hoax.Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!”
The questions is: why...why spend your time & resources on this 'memo'?
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