One of the strongest regular voices in the climate conversation, scaring people about the impending

climate doom, Bill Gates has just come out and said this. Take a look. Climate is a super

important problem. There's enough innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes.

We won't achieve our best goal, the 1.5 or even the 2 degrees.

And as we go about trying to minimize that, we have to frame it in terms of overall human welfare, not just everything should be solely

for climate. When the climate activists who have been very supportive of what you've done and

you've been very supportive of what they done, read this. And if Greta Thunberg is reading

this and saying to herself, my goodness, he seems like he is reversing himself, what would you tell her?

I'd say, wasn't the goal here to improve human lives. And shouldn't we, in our awareness of how little generosity there is to help measure, you know, should we get them

a measles vaccine or should we do some climate-related activity?

And if we could take, if we stop funding all vaccines and that, you know, saved you

point one degree, would that be a smart

tradeoff? That's the kind of question we have to ask. So I'm a climate activist, but I'm also a

child survival activist. If you think climate is the only problem, and it's apocalyptic,

or if you think climate's not a problem at all

my memo will will make no sense to you you'll be like oh no it should all be climate

or you'll be like why are you even still talking about this climate thing why why do

you invest billions of your money into these companies the middle position that

climate is super important,

but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,

I didn't pick that position because it's a, you know, everybody agrees with it.

It's, I think, intellectually, the right answer. everybody agrees with it.

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