Bill Gates has backtracked from his previous statements espousing climate alarmism, now declaring that so-called climate change will “not lead to humanity’s demise.”
The statement contrasts with a statement made in 2020, when Gates said that a “global crisis has shocked the world.”
“Obviously, I am talking about COVID-19. But in just a few decades, the same description will fit another global crisis: climate change,” he wrote at the time. “As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.” Gates added that the “the only way to avoid the worst possible climate outcomes is to accelerate our efforts now.”
Ahead of the annual United Nations climate conference, COP30, Gates changed his tone, now suggesting that the primary goal should be to “prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries,” rather than focusing on “emissions and temperature change.”
“People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future,” Gates expressed, adding that the “doomsday outlook” on the subject has caused “much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.”
“To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition,” Gates argued. “Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.”
In 2023, Gates asserted that “the planet is going to be fine.”
“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” he said. “The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine.”
