Billionaire Bill Gates has admitted that there is no “climate crisis” in a major U-turn on his prior statements promoting “global warming.”
“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” said Gates at a recent event.
“The climate is not the end of the planet.
“So the planet is going to be fine.”
Gates made the remark at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, which was also attended by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and British Prince William.
A few days later, at a New York Times event, he made a similarly climate-related remark.
As Gates put it, “There are effects on humanity, the planet less so,” and “no temperate country is going to become uninhabitable.”
Gates added at the NY Times event that if world leaders are going to implement climate policies, it cannot be achieved by using “brute force.”
“If you try to do climate brute force, you will get people who say, ‘I like climate but I don’t want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living,’” Gates remarked.
“Without innovation, it’s unlikely, particularly in middle-income countries, that the brute force approach will be successful.”
He did not provide specifics, but he did call for increased support from both political