It’s unrealistic to expect climate change to be meaningfully mitigated by expecting global demand for energy to drop significantly or people to stop eating meat, Bill Gates said at an event in India earlier in March. Instead, innovation of new and better solutions is a more likely and productive outcome.
Source: Bill Gates: Asking people to stop eating meat won’t fix climate change
Solutions come from innovation and efficiency, not from non-sustainable measures that make life worse.
“In climate movements, you can get this, ‘Hey, we’ve been consuming too much,’ and ‘Hey, maybe we shouldn’t travel anymore,’” Gates said, speaking at the 5th Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture delivered on March 1.
These de-growth arguments have limited applicability, though. While Americans could use less energy than they currently do, Gates said, it would be “completely unjust” to ask people living in India to continue using the same amount of energy.
“I don’t think we can count on people living an impoverished lifestyle as a solution to climate,” Gates said.
But climate enthusiasts believe we must make lives miserable. We see this rom those who behave like six-year-olds having a temper tantrum and participate in Extinction Rebellion, Scientists Rebellion, Last Generation, etc. nonsense. Their approach is anti-democracy, seeks to impoverish the world, seeks to make life worse off for almost everyone – without likely having any impact on the climate.
