alt Hacker NewsHear hear! Thank you. People are downvoting like mad because they want to drive their own agendas and are afraid of reality, except reality stands undefeated. Everyone wants a piece they call their own. Fighting against it is fighting against basic human nature. Give up your climate agenda. It's dead. Even Bill Gates said it.
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I would suggest you read the Gates report. I'm not sure how much to engage here, except to say emphatically that Gates said nothing of the sort. TL;DR - health and development funding should be considered as a more marginally impactful form of foreign and domestic government investment, but only because of the rapid (and ongoing) progress already seen in emissions reduction.
Here's a quote:
> To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition. Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.
Reducing sprawl is plainly a good strategy to reduce transportation and infrastructure needs, and preserve wildlife.
No. You are being downvoted because observable facts support the opposite of your claims; and because you have apparently ignored many people who pointed out several things wrong with your claim — in a variety of ways — to cherry-pick someone who agrees with you; and because you propose to generalize the feelings of other people who are speaking up that they don't feel the way you imagine that "everyone" does; and because you are casting aspersions on others.