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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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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

him being tied to epsiten make sense why hes doing "charity propaganda" for himself.

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