Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gives an overview of the causes of the energy crisis in Texas on Fox News Sunday.
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that there will be serious consequences if the world does not achieve net carbon emissions by 2050.
In his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”, Gates says that it is essential that the world goes from zero to the current 51 billion tons of emissions within the next 30 years to avoid disasters.
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“The migration we saw from Syria for their civil war, which was somewhat dependent on the weather, will have ten times as much migration because the equatorial areas will become uninhabitable,” Gates told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace . , warns what will happen if the goal is not achieved. ‘We will not be able to farm or go outside during the summer. Wildfires, even the agricultural productivity in the south of the USA – the droughts – will dramatically reduce the productivity in the area. ‘
Gates further said the loss of life would be greater than even the worst part of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The overall instability will be five times as many deaths at the height of the pandemic and rising every year,” he said.
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While 2050 is Gates’ cut-off point, he said it’s really just a matter of ‘degree’.
“If we wait another ten years, it’s not as bad as we wait 20, or we wait 30, because the temperature just keeps going,” he said. Gates said he was looking at 2050 because it “happens to be the realistic date for the world to change all these kinds of emissions.”
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing, China, on Thursday, November 21, 2019. Photographer: Takaaki Iwabu / Bloomberg via Getty Images (Takaaki Iwabu / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Gates defended himself against criticism from left and right. Leftists claim he is not going far enough, and that he should support the Green New Deal, with efforts to reduce net emissions to zero by 2030.
“It’s completely unrealistic,” Gates said of the 2030 target, saying it would take at least 30 years to achieve it.
Gates also got the chance to talk about the need to reduce emissions, while he himself has a tremendous carbon footprint by living in a large house and flying a private jet. He said his other actions compensated for this.
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“I compensate for my carbon emissions by buying clean aviation fuel, and financing carbon capture and financing cheap housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas,” Gates said. He noted how costly these efforts were and said the cost should be reduced.
Gates, a skilled entrepreneur who has created tens of thousands of jobs and established the U.S. as a leader in technology around the world, said that while a shift toward green energy would be needed, it would mean significant job growth for engineers. will have.
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“The engineering skills, the things the workers do, are important. We’ll actually have to triple the size of the electrical network and build all the transmission,” Gates said. “And so it’s not as if there’s going to be a shortage of jobs in general, but just to make sure every community fits into the plan.”
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Gates also backed down on a claim by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who said the misery facing the state’s power grid in the winter storm was the result of the failure of green energy, especially wind.
“That’s not true at all,” Gates said, adding that the power shortage was due to the failure to defend power systems. He said that although wind turbines are part of this, it is possible to weather it, as evidenced by its use in North Dakota and Alaska.