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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Won't Doom Humanity

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As world leaders get set for the United Nations COP30 climate summit, Bill Gates urges them to "pivot," saying the biggest problem for millions is still poverty and disease. Has he been reading Bjorn Lomborg? Plus, Texas AG Ken Paxton sues the maker of Tylenol, echoing claims by RFK Jr. about an alleged link to autism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:40.4

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:47.9

The billionaire Bill Gates turns away from climate catastrophism, saying in a new essay that humanity isn't doomed. And while rising temperatures are a problem, it isn't the biggest problem

0:52.8

facing most people.

1:05.3

Plus, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues the maker of Tylenol over an alleged link to autism promoted by the nation's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1:08.7

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:13.0

We're joined today by my colleagues on the editorial page,

1:20.0

columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member, Manet Uque Burua. As world leaders prepare to jet off to Brazil for the United Nations COP 30 Climate Conference, they're getting a memo from a source

1:26.9

that might be hard for them to ignore.

1:28.9

That's Bill Gates, who in a new essay calls for a strategic pivot, urging the COP 30 crowd to,

1:35.4

quote, prioritize the things that have the greatest impact on human welfare, unquote.

1:42.0

Here he is this week on CNBC explaining what he hopes world leaders take

1:47.5

away from his essay. Well, if the aid budgets to poor countries were continuing to go up,

1:54.7

the way they did over the last 25 years, then the tradeoffs between climate action and saving children's lives wouldn't be as

2:04.5

acute as it is now that these budgets are going down and going down quite a bit. And so the plea

2:10.7

here is to say, okay, let's take that very limited money and not have some partitioned off for particular causes. Let's measure it all

2:20.1

in terms of the human welfare. How do you help those countries? Alicia, one thing I think is

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