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> You’ll never solve climate change by asking people to consume less

The headline says 'no.'

The above poster is just suggesting that Bill Gates not be a hypocrite with respect to consuming less.

He consumes way way way more than the average citizen.

I don’t even know why people listen to him.

Shouldn’t we be listening to actual climate scientists in the US government? And not some software CEO who has conflicts of interest? Why are we even platforming this dude and giving him any legitimacy?

He spends a lot of money to be heard. Nobody was listening to him until he started throwing millions around to organizations to platform him.

If I were Bill Gates it would probably be miserable to take normal flights, can't walk two steps before someone gawks. If anything just reinforces that being famous sucks.

You could still then have other famous people join you on your flights until they're packed like economy flights.

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