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Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo | Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say (www.theguardian.com)
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[+] -18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The foundation has saved tens of millions of lives.

His asset portfolio is invested in everything from energy to farmland.

As far as billionaires go, you could do a lot worse than having a portfolio diversified while saving millions of people by giving away billions of dollars.

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  • [+] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You must be real fun at parties.

    Perfect is not the enemy of good.

    I have a retirement account that invested in broad markets as well, and some of that is in energy for funds that include those stocks in their prospectus.

    If that makes me responsible for death while I spend my days working to help save lives, you have a rather lofty set of expectations.

    In effect, anyone who takes part in paying for gas, having a target date fund in their 401k, or purchases any product from an energy company is complicit in deaths. No 10 random people in any room live up to this standard.

    The transition away from the stranglehold oil as an industry has on the world can’t and won’t happen overnight. He doesn’t run an oil company, he doesn’t work to expand drilling rights, he works to repurpose wealth into human benefit and some of that requires diversification into energy markets.

    If that is a step too far for giving away 100 billion dollars, I don’t know what to tell you.

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  • [+] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Bill Gates' PR game is strong, and he has lot of people fooled into thinking he's a good-guy billionaire. The revelations about his ties to Epstein made a good dent, but I guess a lot of people are too invested in their feelings.

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