Earlier this week, billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates asked the world to rethink its approach to the climate crisis. In a self published essay , he argues it’s time for a “strategic pivot” from focusing on mitigating rising temperatures to protecting humanity from poverty and disease. Gates described a “doomsday” perspective that frames rising global temperatures as an existential threat to civilization, claiming this has led the climate community “to...

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