Remember the line: With great power comes great responsibility. It was popular for a while, especially with the pretentious set. Bill Gates has great power, but he can’t even take the responsibility to get his facts straight, or to apologize when his errors mislead millions. From George Samuelson at strategic-culture.su:
After decades of making people feel guilty for simply living, the billionaire philanthropist now admits that he had the science wrong all along.
After decades of making people feel guilty for simply living, the billionaire philanthropist now admits that he had the science wrong all along and mankind is not perched on the precipice of destruction due to a warming planet.
For the past half a century or so, earth’s inhabitants have lived under the illusion that cataclysmic climate change would soon decimate civilization. And the evil culprit was man himself. Every single human activity – from eating a hamburger to driving an automobile to boarding an aircraft – was declared complicit in turning the planet into a scorched, uninhabitable rock in just a few short years. This sort of thinking had an immeasurable impact on the collective psyche as it placed the world on a massive guilt trip.
Today, after years of mindless fearmongering, Bill Gates has changed his gloomy tone, admitting that there is hope for mankind after all. “Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates admits in a 17-page memo. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.” (Gates’s admission came just one day after the UN said humanity had missed its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C, with the UN Secretary General warning of “devastating consequences” for the planet).
Eugenicists don’t apologize on the Long March to the New Man workers utopia, comrade.