Bill Gates: Climate Change Deaths Will Match COVID In 40 Years

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Billionaire Bill Gates wants the United States to treat climate change with the “same sense of urgency” with which it has responded to COVID-19, arguing that the impacts of the former will be much worse without corrective action.

“If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote on his blog Tuesday.

“The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are [sic] on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world’s carbon emissions.”

Gates estimated that the death toll from climate change would match that of the pandemic by 2060, and exceed it fivefold by 2100.

The economic impact of climate change over the next two decades, he added, could be “as bad as having a COVID-sized pandemic every ten years.”

Early in the pandemic, some drew comparisons between the virus and climate change, and credited economic shutdowns with reducing carbon emissions.

Gates acknowledged this effect but said such temporary restrictions aren’t nearly enough to address rising emissions.

“What’s remarkable is not how much emissions will go down because of the pandemic, but how little,” he said, pointing to a July report estimating the cost of emissions reductions.

“Has closing off major parts of the economy avoided emissions at anything close to $100 per ton?” Gates asked.

“No. In the United States, according to data from the Rhodium Group, it comes to between $3,200 and $5,400 per ton. In the European Union, it’s roughly the same amount. In other words, the shutdown is reducing emissions at a cost between 32 and 54 times the $100 per ton that economists consider a reasonable price.”

At the end of his blog post, Gates called for drastic change and noted that flying or driving less wasn’t going to cut it.

“So just as we need new tests, treatments, and vaccines for the novel coronavirus, we need new tools for fighting climate change: zero-carbon ways to produce electricity, make things, grow food, keep our buildings cool and warm, and move people and goods around the world,” he said.

“And we need new seeds and other innovations to help the world’s poorest people — many of whom are smallholder farmers — adapt to a less predictable climate.”

Meanwhile, a Duke University professor told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. could prevent 4.5 million premature deaths if it worked towards to keep temperature increases below two degrees Celsius.

Conservatives have generally argued that climate fears are overblown, citing apocalyptic predictions from prior decades.

The cost of implementing large-scale reform, they claim, would be unsustainable and inflict massive losses on the U.S. economy.

The Green New Deal (GND), which Gates did not mention, has become the latest touchstone of the environmental movement in the U.S. and been championed by leading Democrats.

The right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is funded by companies in the energy, automotive and technology sectors, recently found that even a portion of the GND’s mandates would cost swing-state households around $75,000 per year.

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    Charles HIgley

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    Billie Gates knows nothing about climate change that he would care to admit. He only has his agenda. First, how can anyone trust someone who publicly said that we can reduce the world population by 15% using vaccines? Second, he is a person with a huge financial stake in the game, particularly with his pushing of a World Vaccination (Mandated) Program. Third, His science does not match up with real science, as his science is a bait and switch in which he pushes developing a vaccine that is actually a gene therapy program, supposedly to make us produce a protein that we develop immunity to.

    One big problem with the gene therapy route is that the new protein would be made in our cells and then exported to our system, thus stimulating an immune response. One problem is that proteins made in a cell for export are usually tagged with carbohydrate groups that tell the body that they are not foreign proteins and not to be responded to. What happens is a question. You are either setting yourself up for a large and even permanent immune response, which might make you less ready for reacting to other challenges, or it will produce a carbohydrate-tagged protein that will do nothing.

    Considering that the supposed Covid-19 is an RNA virus, it is impossible to form a vaccine for two key reasons. First, such viruses mutate too quickly for a vaccine to be effective (not that we have not been trying to do this for decades). Second, this virus has not been isolated and linked and confirmed to any particular illness. You cannot make a vaccine against an undefined virus. It’s like saying the perpetrator of a crime was a white male, so we have to incarcerate all white males. Simply bad science in every way.

    I should add that PCR is completely inappropriate for detecting a specific virus. It is being abused to pretend so. Neither the PCR test nor the antibody test are specific for a virus because no one has isolated or confirmed a pure culture of the virus and shown any form of specificity.

    THE GAS-LIGHTING OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD, see it now, bring your popcorn.

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      Mark Martens

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      Charles, Excellent piece of analysis, and at just the right level of abstraction. I assume that means you are self-taught? (That’s what it usually means)

      Connect with me on LI if you get the chance.
      Mark Martens, Accidental Scientist

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    richard

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    ooops, some climate change- –

    “The epidemic of obesity is now recognised as one of the most important public health problems facing the world today. Adult obesity is more common globally than under-nutrition.

    According to the World Health Organisation (2016), there are around 2 billion adults overweight, of those 650 million are considered to be affected by obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m²). That equates to 39% (39% of men and 40% of women) of adults aged 18 or over who were overweight, with 13% obese. The worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016. It is estimated now that most of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
    If current trends continue, it is estimated that 2.7 billion adults will be overweight, over 1 billion affected by obesity, and 177 million adults severely affected by obesity by 2025”

    https://www.worldobesity.org/about/about-obesity/prevalence-of-obesity

    and the UN predicts the world’s population will be 11 billion by 2100.

    The fastest growth is happening in the far hotter, 3rd world countries.

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      Squidly

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      “.. the UN predicts the world’s population will be 11 billion by 2100.”

      Never going to happen. Not a chance. Presently the global birthrate is slightly negative and dropping quickly (an example article available here on PSI). The world population will never and can never reach 11 billion.

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    Shawn Marshall

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    Gates proves billionaires are idiots too. He was a vicious competitor who ruined the microcomputer industry thanks to IBM’s inability to see the future of desktop computing. They actually hired the guy to eat their guts out. But since ‘management’ was so mainframe channeled they wasted the massive human resources they had at hand. Typical of corporate ossification – only the mediocre advance – don’t make waves – suck up to get up. Now Microsoft is an albatross for users. That Gates is a knee-jerk Progressive, a godless daimon, should surprise no one. The Father of Lies cultures his Crewtape nephews just so.

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      JaKo

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      Hi Shawn,
      One has to wonder how could a billionaire be created of a sneaky college dropout without a kind of typical “family connection” — didn’t Billy’s mother know someone high-up in the IBM hierarchy? As well, in the beginning, Bill has always tried to sell something he thought he could acquire, but he did not have to sell. Isn’t this a reoccurring scheme of things now??? I.E. we’ll mandate a vaccine we don’t have yet, W/O any consideration of efficacy, safety and, related to the latter, long term effects? As in: if your PC shows a “Blue Screen,” that’s OK, you’ll just re-boot and go on, maybe loosing a few hours of work; however, if the Billy’s system applies to today’s situation and his DOS and Windows legacy persists in the “Plandemic” — you see, one can’t re-boot a dead parent or spouse.
      As I said before, these “people” should beware, the guillotine is still available!
      Cheers, JaKo

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        Herb Rose

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        Hi Jako,
        Bill Gates family owns Gates Rubber co which makes auto belts and hoses so he started with a lot of money. His first effort was to make Basic (Honeywell invention) for the individual computers. He notoriously wrote a letter calling everyone who made a copy of the program (normal procedure in the early years) of stealing (even though he stole the Basic language) and so brought greed to the fledgling industry. When IBM saw that the small computer was the future they went to Bill to buy his operating system. He didn’t have a operating system so he sent them to the owner of CPI which was the operating system at the time. The owner didn’t make a deal with IBM so they returned to Bill sand asked him if he could provide a system to them. Bill went to someone who had made a copy of CPI and bought it for $50,000.00. He named the pirated system DOS and sold it to IBM for $50,000.00. He understood that with its corporate structure (They did a study at IBM that showed it would take 6 months for them to ship an empty box.) they could never compete in the fast moving small computer world. His philosophy of sabotage competitors and screw the customer remains.
        Herb

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          Boris Badenov

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          Up front I’m going to say that I detest Gates with virtually every fibre of my being. But, it was CPM (Control Program for MicroComputers) I believe that he stole, not CPI, I can stand to be corrected. I had a BASIS 108 that ran CPM and Apple OS, it was fun. IMHO Gates and his garbage software has cost the world untold Trillions of dollars in wasted time fighting his lousy software. Frustration with trying to get it to work. Increased blood pressure from the previous aforementioned garbage software. Yeah not a fan of Gates.

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            Herb Rose,

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            Hi Boris,
            You’re right it was CPM. Long time ago and memory fades. I do remember being excited to get a computer with 64k of memory though and the anger at having t upgrade because Gates produced crap and then finding that the new version was an even bigger piece go s–t.
            Herb

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          Squidly

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          You missed the part of how IBM knew to go to Bill Gates .. As Jako indicated, through a contact through his mother. Go read his biography! .. The original source of the “DOS” that was present to IBM originated with the Seattle PC Users Group and Gary Kildall.

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    Joel Walbert

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    Finally some good news. Glad to know nobody will ever die from climate change

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    Andy Rowlands

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    Gates talks absolute cobblers.

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