Billionaire Bill Gates dismissed the possibility of people making significant changes to their lifestyle, like giving up meat and becoming vegetarians for the sake of countering the alleged effects of climate change.
“I don’t think we can count on people living a impoverished lifestyle as a solution to climate change,” Gates said at an event in India on March 1. “You know, meat consumption in India will be less … That’s wonderful. Will all Indians become vegetarians? Will all Americans become vegetarians? I wouldn’t want to count on it. Anybody who wants to evangelize that, they’re welcome to. I won’t resist in any way.”
Gates had earlier pushed for rich nations to adopt 100 percent synthetic beef that is made from plant proteins like beans or peas, carbs like potato starch, fats like canola or coconut oil, minerals, and flavorings.
In an online interaction on Reddit in January, Gates pushed for the widespread adoption of plant-based meat products.
“For people who want to go Vegan that is great but I don’t think most people will do that. There are companies making ‘beef’ in new ways and people working to still use cows but reduce the methane emissions,” he wrote.
“I have backed a number of innovators in this space including Beyond and Impossible and Memphis. I think eventually these products will be very good even though their share is small today.”
Gates’ push to move away from meat consumption and adopt plant-based alternatives comes as he is busy buying up farmland in America.
According to a July 2022 letter sent by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) seeking Gates’ testimony regarding his farm purchases, the Microsoft founder is the “largest private farmland owner” in the United States, owning more than 270,000 acres of farmland in 19 states.
Energy Consumption
At the India event, Gates also talked about energy consumption. He pointed out that if governments are willing to implement tough laws, air conditioning can simply be banned, which would be “good for the climate.” However, he admitted that this would not happen as a warmer climate will keep raising the demand for cooling.
“But as India gets warmer and warmer, I’m betting the demand for air condition is going to skyrocket. The country that has the most air conditioning by far is the United States. Even Europe doesn’t have what we have. And so, as it gets hotter, you know, you demand more electricity, which if it’s not green, then you’re in a positive feedback loop,” he said.
Gates also pointed out that most of the demand for more energy, cement, and steel is coming from middle-income nations like India, “where even if you stop at, say a quarter of American energy intensity, that climate change is very, very dramatic.”
The Microsoft co-founder also suggested that even when the United States uses “half as much energy per person,” it would be “unjust” to ask India to maintain consumption at its current level.
According to Our World in Data, energy use per person in the United States was 76,634 kilowatt-hours in 2021, which is close to 11 times India’s energy consumption of 6,992 kilowatt-hours per capita.
Climate Change Agenda
Last year, Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, claimed that climate change is based on false narratives.
No kidding, Bill. Us American common folk are quite a few steps above the smelly Walmart shoppers and the deplorables that we have been characterized by upstarts such as yourself. You should have stayed with Microsoft and avoided politics altogether. We can read, analyze, comprehend, and observe every bir as well as you can (or think you can).
This phony science BS you people peddle in the name of climate change is one gigantic farce and there is ample evidence out there to prove that point. Get a life.
It seems to me that as Bill Gates got wealthier, as well as other billionaires, all their wealth has made their brains turn to mush. Myself I do not fall into Gates agenda . Nor do I trust him buying up so much farmland.
IF he wants to take the lead, and change HIS LIFESTYLE< as an example, GO for it.
Hey Bill, since you are causing climate change with your ” 5 Massive Mansions from Seattle to Florida, with your private jet and your yacht”, and since you want to get rid of cows, which according to you, cause “global warming”, I suggest, instead of making “synthetic meat”, I suggest we make a “synthetic” Bill Gates. With a “synthetic” Bill Gates in our world, we can get rid of your 5 massive mansions, we can get rid of your private jet and your yacht, which according to you, is certainly causing “global warming”, right Bill?????
Sacrifice is for thee, not for me, sayeth Woke Bill Gates…
The BIG LIE is the greatest con job in human history. The perfect crime.
“In an email obtained by The Epoch Times, Moore, who left the organization back in 1986,
said that Greenpeace was “hijacked” by the political left (Democrats) when they became aware of the money and power involved in the environment movement.“The ‘environmental’ movement has become more of a political movement than an environmental movement,” Moore stated. “They are primarily focused on creating narratives, stories, that are designed to instill fear and guilt into the public so the public will send them money.””
“The Epoch Times, Marcel Crok, the founder of CLINTEL, said that even if it is accepted that carbon dioxide is the main driver of current climate change, there still is no “climate emergency”
So again we see that the traitorous, destructive, dishonest, unethical, immoral, woke, Democrat Party is pulling their environment movement con and deception for only the perception of power and money!
Two huge problems:
1. Climate change zealots, such as Mr. Gates, don’t follow the advice they give everyone else. If they did, they’d have far more credibility.
2. Everything we humans do has intended and unintended consequences. Whether it’s dumping reflective sulphur particles into the air to cool the earth, planting more crops to replace cattle and sheep, building massive wind and solar farms to produce “Dirty Green Energy”, etc, there are tradeoffs.
Our attempts to stave off an alleged crisis might actually, in the long run, do far more harm than good.
None of this matters to Mr. Gates, and those of his ilk, as they’ll be long gone when the unintended consequences of this attempt to fix so-called climate change begins to bear fruit.
As I’m always so fond of saying, “Just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing.”
It has very little to do with “climate change”.
It is all about Money, Power and Control.
A Favored quote of mine.. I forget where i heard it first.
bill, you are out of touch with humanity. Your rock is calling
THAT is why the radical left plans on FORCING Americans to change our present lifestyle whether we want to do so or not.