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(DIR) Post #AzfhJfdpk2DV5yZabo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:09:26Z
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In a memo released Tuesday, #BillGates says he thinks #ClimateChange is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, & it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global #climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting #poverty & preventing #disease.#ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth https://www.gatesnotes.com/three-tough-truths-about-climate
(DIR) Post #AzfhRWkOh3plpMOCx6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:10:50Z
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#BillGates says a doomsday outlook has led the #climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce #emissions of #CO2 & other #GreenhouseGases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world. Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent human suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
(DIR) Post #AzfhcNiYbdFN0Xhk1I by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:12:47Z
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If given a choice between eradicating malaria & a tenth of a degree increase in warming, #BillGates said, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1° to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”Gates wrote his 17-page memo hoping to have an impact on next month’s #UN #ClimateChange conference in #Brazil. He’s urging world leaders to ask whether the little money designated for #climate is being spent on the right things. #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
(DIR) Post #AzfhpqzR5FtHYh1Vku by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:15:15Z
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#BillGates expects his “tough truths about climate” memo will be controversial.“If you think #climate is not important, you won’t agree with the memo. If you think climate is the only cause & apocalyptic, you won’t agree with the memo,” Gates said during a roundtable discussion with reporters ahead of the release. “It’s kind of this pragmatic view of somebody who’s, you know, trying to maximize the money & the innovation that goes to help in these poor countries.”#ClimateChange #PublicHealth
(DIR) Post #AzfiC3hIWCZTLC7y9w by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:19:16Z
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#Climate scientists say every fraction of a degree of warming matters.Every bit of additional warming correlates to more #ExtremeWeather, risks species #extinction & brings the world closer to crossing tipping points where changes become irreversible, scientists say.#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007
(DIR) Post #AzfiGBMvwCOOIAZJxY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:19:59Z
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University of Washington #PublicHealth & climate scientist Kristie Ebi said she thoroughly agrees with #BillGates that the #UN negotiations should focus on improving human health & well-being. But, she said, Gates assumes the world stays static & only one variable changes — faster deployment of green technologies — to curb #ClimateChange. She called that unlikely.#ClimateCrisis #GlobalHealth
(DIR) Post #AzfiTHGHL9XsKfhTJw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-28T15:22:22Z
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Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, called the memo “pointless, vague, unhelpful & confusing.”“There is no reason to pit #poverty reduction versus #climate transformation. Both are utterly feasible, & readily so, if the Big #Oil lobby is brought under control,” he wrote in an email.#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
(DIR) Post #Azfk3GU9nrJ0IvupsG by mildpeach@mstdn.social
2025-10-28T15:40:01Z
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@Nonilex Everyone knows Gates is senile, right?
(DIR) Post #Azfl0wrTtQRCojHhuy by mildpeach@mstdn.social
2025-10-28T15:50:50Z
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@Nonilex Gates obviously never did his ecology homework in college, oh wait he dropped out to pursue some computer thing, otherwise he’d understand about extinction events…
(DIR) Post #AzfmgJqhQmvbwFD4zY by PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-10-28T16:09:30Z
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@Nonilex One of the things I liked about the #GreenNewDeal framework is that it showed how and what we need to do to address the #ClimateCrisis, which of necessity integrated addressing the problems of poverty into the overall strategy.#ClimatAction requires a healthy, educated and engaged workforce. That means we need to ensure education, healthcare, housing, food are accessible to all. That means a functioning infrastructure - mobility, energy, communications - so people can do the work. And that makes it easier to address a range of problems.It all ties together. Not everyone needs to work on a climate specific action, we can do more than just walk and chew gum at the same time.
(DIR) Post #AzgYsaOiWbWGXQ2KDQ by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2025-10-29T01:09:36Z
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@Nonilex Oh yeah, that works out really well. What leads poverty? Extreme weather? Never believe that a billionaire actually gives a shit it’s always about fulfilling something in their own personal gain for their own agenda. Benioff, convincing Trump to stand down with a troop surge in San Francisco. He had earlier caused a fire storm by suggesting that ICE sweep through San Francisco. So here he is made himself look like kind of a redeemed hero except his AI investments profit from ICE
(DIR) Post #AzgZ6jw1rWGQAhMoOe by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2025-10-29T01:12:10Z
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@Nonilex Both are inseparable.The modern economy is a global genocidal project. A good deal of genocide is perpetrated through global warming.. the super rich think that they can escape it and somebody like gates is now spouting things that suggest that roasting the planet can just be waived away by technology.
(DIR) Post #AzgZBHr9gXvOXFFtx2 by Npars01@mstdn.social
2025-10-29T01:12:56Z
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@Nonilex As a side note, letting climate change destroy the habitability of the planet means...1. One billion deaths from famine2. Over 1.2 billion climate refugees 3. Enormous profits to the fossil fuel industry funding & powering AI data centers 4. Fossil fuel funded fascism & state surveillance 5. Mass extinction events6. Double digit increases in electricity & water utility rates7. Electricity grid failures & blackouts8. Mass mortality events from extreme heat9. World war1/
(DIR) Post #AzgZhCqXqaK8GRBrFo by adamsteer@mapstodon.space
2025-10-29T01:18:43Z
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@Nonilex honestly why does anyone still care what he thinks?...at this point all I'm hearing is fossil fuel shilling, to prop up massive data centre proliferation...