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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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[+] sudoshakes@reddthat.com -8 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 weeks ago

Perfect is not the enemy of good.

Bill Gates is neither perfect, nor good. There are no good billionaires. In this case, the billionaire whose boots you are deepthroating just released a memo to influence the COP30 international climate summit in Brazil by dismissing the seriousness of climate change. This is the same billionaire who has scrubbed climate change essays from his websites. This is the same billionaire that downplays the importance of clean, renewable energy. This is the also the same billionaire that has billions in investments in fossil fuels. Do you have billions of investments in fossil fuels? Can you even find ten people in your city who do?

Now, I don't know if your comment is born out of ignorance or pure maliciousness, but all you're doing is boosting the misinformation that Gates has been spreading for the past several years. The absolute gall you have to come to a comm about climate change to peddle your anti-environmental activism is disgusting.

You should be ashamed.