Huh, that's weird, isn't it?
After decades of being told that climate change is an existential threat and that we need to eat bugs, make "slop water" butter, mask cows, and bury poop to stop the sun monster, suddenly it's actually not so big a deal?
Yep, in a blog post this week, Bill Gates just ... walked it all back and took the "centrist" liberal position as voiced above by The Free Press. Climate Change is real, but it's not going to be the end of the world.
Here's National Review:
Just four years ago he wrote a book on How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, and he has suggested climate change 'could be worse' than the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, Gates now suggests 'we should measure success by our impact on human welfare more than our impact on the global temperature.'
He is calling for a 'strategic pivot' in addressing climate change and says rather than focusing on trying to limit rising temperatures, climate advocacy should focus on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.
Could it be that the doom-and-gloom scare tactics work on a very vocal minority of libs, but with the right-wing shift in politics internationally, it's becoming clear that the rhetoric isn't really working on a large scale?
It sounds like they're in need of a new boogeyman!
The billionaire's comments put him at odds with the UN secretary general, who on Monday warned of 'devastating consequences' for the world as the UN said leaders had failed its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
'The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs,' UN Secretary General António Guterres told The Guardian.
It sure looks like a civil war is brewing on the Left.
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