Bill Gates said during an interview with Bloomberg's Zero podcast that scolding people about having nice things or eating meat should not be at the center of fighting climate change.
AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin criticizes the Biden administration for their prioritization of climate change as the U.S. economy continues to decline on ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast.’said during an interview last week that scolding people about having nice things or eating meat will not solve the climate crisis.
Gates made the comment on an episode of Bloomberg’s Zero podcast with host Akshat Rathi, which was published on Wednesday. Rathi had asked Gates if a "social and political revolution" was needed to compensate for technology’s shortcomings in addressing climate change. Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022.
"Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we'll just basically change human desires, I think that that's too difficult," Gates admitted. He then argued that these things don’t necessarily have to play a central role in fighting climate change, noting that rich countries only account for less than a third of all emissions.
"Those [remaining] two-thirds of emissions are pretty basic in terms of the calories and shelter and transport and goods being used. So, the excesses of the rich countries … even curbing those completely out of existence is not a solution to this problem," he said adding: "I'm looking at what the world has to do to get to zero, not using climate as a moral crusade."
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