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| Bill Gates |
In a recent interview with Technology Review, Bill Gates said that he believes rich nations would help the global fight against climate change by consuming only plant-based meat products instead of beef.
"I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef," Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production. "You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time."
"Impossible and Beyond [the plant burger producers] have a road map, a quality road map and a cost road map, that makes them totally competitive," Gates said, "As for scale today, they don’t represent 1% of the meat in the world, but they’re on their way."
"Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand," Gates said. "So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible."
Gates is one strange dude. He has this super-desire to change the world entirely the way he would like it to be---and use force to do it.
I have no idea what he thinks he knows about climate change, carbon or viruses but if it comes close to his shallow knowledge in the field of economics, he is the biggest crackpot this planet has ever seen.
-RW
I wish Mr. Gates would lead by example and change his diet and let the rest of us decide on our own. I'm sure his definition of "rich" is quite different from mine.
ReplyDelete"You can get used to the taste difference..." is his blithe and dismissive way of addressing those who will suffer under his vision of utopia.
ReplyDeleteHow easily such excuses and sentiments (i.e. "they'll adjust" or "it's the new normal") came to the minds, too, of the architects of utopian paradises such as Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, Castro's Cuba, Lenin's USSR, Mussolini's fascist Italy, etc. etc.
Bill Gates can get used to prison. Looking forward to that day although not that optimistic. The man is a cancer on humanity but alas just one of many these days.
DeleteWhere have I heard this before... "Let them eat cake."
ReplyDeleteBill Gates, the world’s leading producer of “methane”.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates, the world’s leading producer of “methane”.
ReplyDeleteIt also came out recently that Gates is now the largest private owner of farmland in the US. Don't for a minute believe that he's bought up all this farmland because he's interested in strengthening the food system by supporting small local farms. This is just another piece of the global population control grid he wants to put in place.
ReplyDeleteIf he's so concerned about overpopulation, I'd really like to tell him that it's entirely within his power to reduce the population by one person. I think the world would be better off that way as well...
These impossible burgers are horrible for you. Could he not know that? Or does he not care about the health of people?
ReplyDeleteHe knows it. He has no interest in anyone but himself and maybe his family living longer. He believes there are too many people as it is.
DeleteAnd to think that I supported this guy and Microsoft in their antitrust battles with the Justice Dept. back in the 1990s. Of course that's when they produced a superior product in an open, competitive marketplace. But this is a different story entirely. Now he's leveraging the billions he earned then in an attempt to twist market decisions (about eating and vaccines and many other things) to his "superior" way of thinking. The best (worst?) current example of Hayek's "fatal conceit" theory.
ReplyDeleteMuch of Gates' money from his suspect acquisition of his operating system came from Federal and State contracts. As for any "product", one of his considerable sources of income was school districts. He simply overcomplicated the classroom in many respects (and, later, to add insult to injury, got behind common core which he then admitted was a mistake).
Delete(Parenthetically - on the "education" front - if tech is such a boon to learning, why, since the inclusion of the computer in the classroom as the main source of 'learning', has the finished product become so abysmally poor in the past two decades?)
He deserves the Lincoln Treatment for he is even more evil than that poor excuse for a president.
ReplyDeleteApparently his head got way to big from all the wealth he created through Microsoft. Will someone catch him eating real beef please so we can plaster the photo like we did with Gavin Newsom.
ReplyDeleteSaint William only consumes WHO-consecrated unicorn flatulences. He calls it Manna 2021.
DeleteMaybe Gates bought this prize bull for $900,000? 2nd Highest priced angus bull sold in history in Nebraska recently for $900,000!!! https://omaha.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska-bull-sells-for-900k-setting-record-for-second-highest-selling-angus-in-history/article_7079c285-92c6-57b5-a272-6387afe5290f.html
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