Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole – Microsoft founder and entrepreneur Bill Gates has joined the growing ranks of green activists, who think that ordinary people aren’t qualified to choose who should govern them.
According to Gates;
… Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming. Gates thinks that we can’t accept this outcome, and that our best chance to vault over natural gas to a globally applicable, carbon-free source of energy is to drive innovation “at an unnaturally high pace.”
When I sat down to hear his case a few weeks ago, he didn’t evince much patience for the argument that American politicians couldn’t agree even on whether climate change is real, much less on how to combat it. “If you’re not bringing math skills to the problem,” he said with a sort of amused asperity, “then representative democracy is a problem.” What follows is a condensed transcript of his remarks, lightly edited for clarity. …
Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-miracle/407881/
Some other highlights – Bill Gates on Renewable energy;
Well, there’s no fortune to be made. Even if you have a new energy source that costs the same as today’s and emits no CO2, it will be uncertain compared with what’s tried-and-true and already operating at unbelievable scale and has gotten through all the regulatory problems, like “Okay, what do you do with coal ash?” and “How do you guarantee something is safe?” Without a substantial carbon tax, there’s no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch. …
On the need for more government;
… Realistically, we may not get more than a doubling in government funding of energy R&D—but I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a year from the U.S. government to fund basic research alone. Now, as a percentage of the government budget, that’s not gigantic. But we are at a time when the flexibility—because of health costs and other things, but primarily health costs—of the budget is very, very squeezed. But you could do a few-percent tax on all of energy consumption, or you could use the general revenue. This is not an unachievable amount of money. …
Bill Gates has attracted significant controversy during his career, for example when he accused developers of free software of being communists, when they refused to give Microsoft unfettered rights to exploit their work. Gates has also spent a lot of time in courtrooms defending Microsoft from accusations of sharp business practices, of being a monopoly, of violating anti-trust laws. So to me personally, it is no surprise that Gates’ response to the difficulty of convincing people to accept his point of view on climate change, is to express authoritarian contempt for ordinary people having such freedoms.
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Gates could LEARN from the ‘small people’s ingenuity to cope with a live on the brink.
And had to pay his luxury climate swindle visions.
If socialism is so great Bill, why did Microsoft waste all those millions of shareholder dollars to fight the anti-trust cases world governments threw at you? Seems to me you were protecting your property, a very un-socialist thing to do…share and share alike ya know.
Actually, he has joined the growing ranks of the “I’ve made mine, now I want the door closed so no one else from the unwashed masses can join me.”
I’m sick of the hypocrisy.
Bill Gates obviously missed [1] and [2]. Why don’t these people read?
[1] http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf
[2] http://www.scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_RC_2015_08_24_EN.pdf
Dear Mr. Gates,
I find myself agreeing with you more than I possibly thought I could. The whole notion of a representative democracy is utterly absurd, particularly the notion that the common folk, unlike you, could possibly have a worth opinion.
Now unlike you, I’m not a billionaire. That triviality aside I do find that while I agree with you regarding the notion of representative democracy, I do differ from you in my stance on climate change and the ultimate impacts. I consider myself to be far more educated and unbiased on the subject than you would consider yourself. And since we’re really only basing this off personal opinion,in my mind, you lose. Why? Well because unlike your opinion even though I may not like what people vote for (cough*Obama*cough) I still respect the democratic process. Why don’t you?
That representative democracy enabled you to become a billionaire. WHAT A PITY!
Bill Gates Climate Rant: “Representative Democracy is a Problem”
It’s always is a problem when ‘democracy’ doesn’t agree with you. If everyone agreed, however, it wouldn’t be ‘democracy’ it would be another five year plan dictated by a committee.
We know full well how these things end.
Gates is a real arse hole in that he was once someone that would have failed miserably under some ‘non-democratic’ (Communist) system. Now he has Billions (earned from a ‘democratic’ sysetem) and so can join ‘The Club of Rome’ and wish for an end to democracy.
Fool thinks that, when the new revolution comes along, he won’t be put against a wall and shot. Can’t have success, Bill, under a Communist regime. Success must be eliminated, it gives ordinary idiots ideas.
The Bill Gates Paradox: he advocates coercive collectivizing, via involuntary taxes, of a large portion of the wealth from citizens; where he thinks the citizens are very highly intelligent and exceedingly resourceful in creating value that can be forced out of them. But, paradoxically, he denies that same general citizenry have sufficient intelligence to determine how the coercively collectivized (involuntarily taxed) money is spent (or whether it is spent at all) on climate / energy. He is irrational.
Actually, the ‘Bill Gates Paradox’ is merely a mimic of the 2000+ year old irrationality of Plato’s Philosopher King Paradox**
** Plato’s Philosopher King Paradox – Plato’s view is a philosopher king has access to knowledge of the higher true reality whereas the general citizens do not access to it; the general citizen’s only can have access to limited knowledge of a shadowed/ mirrored/ distorted world that true knowledge cannot be found in. The Philosopher King knows what to do with the products and services of the country’s subjects/ citizens but the subjects/ citizens can’t know what to do with their own products and services.
It’s an intellectual scam in both Gate’s Paradox and Plato’s Philosophic Paradox. I suggest one always be vigilant in watching out for such dual reality metaphysics and their necessary consequences in epistemology and in ethics and in politics. That intellectual scam is the vehicle to mandate the priority of someone’s higher (usually social) cause over the normal individual’s knowledge and values.
John
Bill, what we really need is a technology breakthrough to avoid massive policy failure and cost overrun as exemplified with expensive all electric vehicles for rich people as tax credit miners and costly rooftop solar that ignores the growing cost difference compared to utility scale solar with economies of scale. Ordinary tax payers should have a voice in speaking against tax policy fraud on such a massive scale and the obvious cases of DOE program channeling millions to renewable energy fraudsters among the competitive players. Also, ask yourself how many African kids could be helped with the $43 million wasted on a CNG filling station in Afghanistan. We need policy logic here, not excuses and perception plays.
Gates is just trying to insulate himself from the peasants with torches and pitchforks. One of the major political parties has always blamed rich people for all the world’s problems and from time to time threatens to take their wealth from them. One day this may actually start to happen, so now Gates can say “hey, wait, I’m really one of you I believe in global warming. I’m giving away much (but not nearly all) of my forturne. I contribute bigtime to Democrats. You don’t need to take my wealth; take the wealth from the Koch brothers and other rich conservatives, but not me, because I’m just a guy like you, just a million times richer.”
Bill gates also said this:
Quote by Bill Gates, Microsoft billionaire, and large CO2 producer: “The world today has 6.8 billion people…that’s headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”
Actually, taken in context, his reply is correct. Representative democracy is a problem if the only qualification for getting democratically elected is charisma and popularity. That’s not news to anybody. Well, except the uneducated and ignorant who vote based purely on charisma and popularity.
You first, Bill. You first.
It’s shocking how many powerful people in and out of government are now expressing support for a dictatorship.
Belief in imminent catastrophe is a moral slippery slope. If you truly believe (or pretend to believe) the world is on the brink of destruction, you can justify anything – what crime, what sacrifice of values could possibly be worse than the end of the world?
So Bill should go along with the idea that instead of people actually voting, I alone will determine the outcome of all elections. The problem is that even though Bill might like the idea, not everyone will want to go along with it.
Democracy already is a Dictatorship. Lobby groups, favours etc.,….. Sure the teams get changed occasionally and we get to vote the next “paid for” shill.
A new Federal law making it a felony, punishable for 10 years at Club Fed, for any person to be in possession of over $10M on New Years Eve, every year, to stop the 1% from all the hoarding that’s killing the economy would do a lot for all of us. “Spend it or lose it.” If you have so much you can’t spend it all, you have two choices 1) Give the excess away to who you choose. 2) Have it confiscated by the state and redistributed to those who have nothing. Buying weapons and war with it are forbidden.
Larry Butler proposes:
And, of course, the expenditures of such excesses will reliably go into contributions “buying access” to incumbents of public offices directly, as well as to non-distributive corporate political action committees. Such influence would be the natural object of these purchases, especially as this “new Federal law” would necessarily be enacted by the professional politicians comprising our republic’s governing class.
I really love the way fascists actually believe that they improve the economy by stealing from others.
Everything old becomes new again:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/03/os2_returns_arca_noae/
My son gave me six little pictures of Bill Gates when I asked him to print some test tiles for me.
You’ll be happy to know he did not get in any trouble. But ever since then, Mr. Gates has been known as the “Prints of Darkness” in our house.
Remote-Controlled Contraceptive | MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/…/a-contraceptive...
MIT Technology Review
Jul 4, 2014 – … to be implanted under the skin of the buttocks, upper arm, or abdomen. … a visit by Bill Gates and his colleagues to Robert Langer’s MIT lab.
‘Remote control’ contraceptive chip available ‘by 2018 …
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28193720
BBC
Jul 7, 2014 – The chip is implanted under a woman’s skin, releasing a small dose of … The project has been backed by Bill Gates, and will be submitted for …
Bill Gates’ Temporary Sterilization Microchip In Beta Female …
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-temporary-sterilization…/5460181
Jul 3, 2015 – The chip can be implanted into the hip, arms or beneath the back. … The institute’s Chip Foundation and Bill Gates’ foundation have been …
Contraceptive microchip: could it revolutionize global birth …
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/279323.php
Medical News Today
Rating: 4.2 – 12 votes
Jul 7, 2015 – A tiny hormone-releasing microchip implanted under the skin, … MicroCHIPS, with the backing of Bill Gates, plan to submit the implant for …
My guess is that the technology being developed for this RFID is a kind of liquid crystal that responds to the hormones in the body and releases a poison. He is also behind the Common Core educational system.
To attribute wisdom to Mr. Gates that is proportionate to his wealth would be inappropriate.
With Obummer’s latest malfeasance on Western Hemisphere foreign policy, Mr Gates is free now to move his whole damn family and compound to Cuba where he can enjoy the benefits of 55 years of top-down directed social and economic solutions.
The hundreds of posts on this article emote an angry tone towards Mr Gates. Angry that he provides a shit product. Angry that he thinks he’s better than you. Angry that he’s using his wealth to be a proponent for saving the earth from CAGW.
Are you angry that he’s picked an unpopular position (at least at WUWT) or are you angry because he’s using his wealth to promote his view of the world ?
Couldn’t people just have a dim view of him, Luke? The anger part doesn’t seem necessary to have a negative view of someone, to me.
I personally think it’s despicable that the world’s ultimate Capitalist has turned out to be an active promoter of socialist ideals, and seemingly has never found a leftist cause that he couldn’t support.
I don’t have a problem with MS, they were never the monopoly that apple has turned out to be, and there have been viable alternatives for many years now.
I’m annoyed that he lives in a part of the world where he was able to have his talents recognized, grown and benefit significantly from them as a result. If Gates had been born in most parts of the world he would have lived a short undignified life as a subsistence farmer if he was lucky to survive a myriad of diseases that likely would have killed him at a young age. In other parts of the world he would have been recognized but his talent would have been expropriated by the state and he would have enjoyed little, if any, of the benefits himself.
I’m not stupid enough to think America is the only country in the world where Bill Gates could be the Bill Gates we see above… Far from it. I’m not American after all. But I do recognize that many of the values he is attacking are confined to a fairly small number of the worlds nations and are a big part of the reason he has the pedestal that he does.
It’s a bit like my father in law who is a huge proponent of eco-justice and supports our local eco-lynch mob with tons of financial support. He has two SUVs, a boat that burns about a liter of fuel a minute (he measured), a huge house and loves to jet around the world fishing and site seeing. On top of that he made his money in the auto industry. I quite like him but he has this odd inability to see all of the benefits that he has derived from a system he doesn’t like and actively works to rip down. At the same time he is certainly not interested in giving up his wealthy position.
I dislike it when people take the position that they should be the last one through the metaphorical door and proceed to spend their life atoning for some sort of guilt they have, not by giving up what they have and leading by example, but by slamming the door in the face of everyone coming after them. Gates is that mindset on steroids…. As an aside I like Windows 10, I’m an insider.
I do wish I could see the world as black and white as you do though. Life would be much easier.
What a wonderfully written post.
I’m not sure what I communicated to project my world as black and white though.
I’m full of internal bias and inconsistencies as are all humans. I posed my question because I’m not sure what people expect of the wealthy. I’m not positive, but I suspect that people at WUWT are pissed that Gates is funding CAGW, but would be okay with it if he funded something that was more consistent with THEIR priorities.
I take that as they think it okay for the wealthy to influence the world, as long as it’s influence they agree with ????
Knute commented: “…I take that as they think it okay for the wealthy to influence the world, as long as it’s influence they agree with ????”
No, it’s OK for the wealthy to influence the world as long as it doesn’t affect anyone negatively. It’s OK to spend your money raising people’s health standards so they can live longer/stronger lives but not if it selectively lowered other people’s health or lifestyle. While I believe Gates’ motives are altruistic from a monetary standpoint I think his head is bloated with “I can save the world with my money” syndrome and he doesn’t see the unintended consequences of his largess. Is it OK to eradicate polio in India if the cure kills more people from another disease? He needs to stick with raising water, sanitation, and shelter standards in third world countries. He’s an easy target to be a useful idiot for the cause.
Mark
Thanks for your opinion. It’s tricky isn’t it ?
It’s perhaps a reasonable point of view to want to give back to the world that gave you so much. And yet, the giver can become meddlesome.
Quite the challenge and opportunity all in one.
Knute (sorry about that “Luke” above),
“I take that as they think it okay for the wealthy to influence the world, as long as it’s influence they agree with ????”
To me it’s more like; as long as they don’t use their influence to undermine representative democracy . . as in, deprive the “common folk” of their rightful (in my case Constitutionally established) influence in the world. And that would go for non-wealthy people too.
I really don’t see what the problem with that is . . I’m rather fond of the idea of everyone having things like unalienable rights, and a say in their own governance . . aren’t you?
John
It’s a fascinating subject. If you have any kind of connection to humans, you tend to want to help them. It’s dare I say a natural instinct.
On the other hand, there are countless examples of people and groups that abuse that opportunity by imparting THEIR view of the world on the people they help.
As usual, imperfect humans helping other imperfect humans is going to be flawed. While Mr G has some rather annoying and potentially dangerous tendencies, his idea of fostering excellence is good. He just needs to let go of the need to control.
I might add, it’s a lesson so many of us have to learn irrespective of wealth.
Knute
To my mind, there is a factor that “we” have been conditioned to discount in all of this. There are a small number of people who biologically lack empathy/conscience, generally called psychopaths, and some who have become psycho/emotionally “crippled” in that realm, generally called sociopaths. I have come to believe those folks are responsible for vastly more misery and corruption in this world than their numbers alone might suggest.
I can’t tell if Mr Gates is in that “class”, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was. For such, it is unlikely they can ever grasp the “superiority” of those who have and heed their “natural instincts” as you put it, and there is, I believe, a strong tendency to see themselves as “superior models”, and to act accordingly. Attempts at altruism can easily become attempts at control for them, which itself can seem as altruistic, given the low esteem they have for us “regular folks”.
To them, I believe it is very hard to understand why a great deal of control is unnecessary for fully functional humans, with our “inboard” self control systems, which they lack. In a “psychopath world”, such heavy duty controls would be necessary just to keep society going, and that “threat” is what those folks can grasp easily, I think. .
John
I think of most traits as bell curve in distribution thru the population. It’s a theory. I don’t have stats. I have a lifetime of observing a tremendous variety of individuals and cultural experiences so while anecdotal, I have observed that we can all be both the best and worst of human traits. I anecdotally observe this on both an individual basis and in the larger population set that I’ve experienced.
Is Gates displaying a hurtful towards many sense of control. Yes, it appears he has. Has he also displayed a generosity to be emulated. Yes, he does. For me, it’s a fascinating component of humanity.
I have also observed that wealth accentuates the good and bad of one’s personality. It doesn’t necessarily change a person, but it does amplify them.
We all need trusted objective observers. It’s harder for rich people because we suck up to them too much. It’s hard for a rich person to know who will give them non self serving feedback.
Disclaimer … the above is solely my personal opinion based on a lifetime of people who have run thru my circle.
Knute,
“I have observed that we can all be both the best and worst of human traits”
I don’t grasp the concept of being a human trait . . I suspect you mean we all sin, as the Book puts it, and there but for the grace of God and so on, which I can relate to and generally agree with . . but I still think psychopaths and sociopaths exist, and that they commit a disproportionate amount of mayhem and theft, out at the extreme of the bell curve, if you will.
The rest is kind of mysterious to me . . it looks like you’re trying to justify your own enslavement . . Count me out if that’s what you’re up to ; )
JohnKnight: Mayhem? Maybe. Theft? Absolutely not. It only takes one round of financial institution shenanigans to skew the bell curve forever.
John
I don’t equate it traits to sin. I’m aware of the concept. My opinion is that individuals are far more capable of the good and bad that they observe than they are aware of. I also agree that there are some individuals who display undesirable traits more often than others. My job is not to change them but instead maintain effective boundaries … manage myself.
Hope that clarifies.
takebackthegreen
“Theft? Absolutely not. It only takes one round of financial institution shenanigans to skew the bell curve forever.”
I’m not understanding why financial shenanigans are not theft, It’s nonsensical to me . .
JohnKnight: My point was that psychopaths and sociopaths aren’t responsible for the majority of theft in the world.
Unless you consider financial institution CEOs and Boards of Directors to BE sociopaths. I could be convinced of that…
Knute,
“I also agree that there are some individuals who display undesirable traits more often than others.”
Good, and what I’m suggesting is that we are being assaulted/concurred by psychopathic people, not a random selection of humans. Like a mafia/crime syndicate, not a random selection of humans, but a sort of self-selected association of criminals (gang). And that such gangs have been the cause of vast amounts of suffering, injustice, corruption, and so forth.
“My job is not to change them but instead maintain effective boundaries … manage myself.”
Good, but the class of people I’m talking about don’t give a rodent’s rear-end about such boundaries, and are intent on changing you (us) whether you like it or not . . Because they are “defective” in the “manage myself” sense (lacking real concern for the welfare of others), they are vulnerable to being recruited by “gangs” of like-minded people . . and hence in a large group doing things like destroying/corrupting civil society, undermining legitimate science, and enslaving you (us, everyone).
It’s not that I think “normal” folks are saints, they’re surely not, but that people without empathy/conscience are prone to becoming real monsters. And they can “self-select” into gangs/criminal organizations rather easily, and take over neighborhoods, cities, nations, and now I believe, the world.
And I believe we have been conditioned to assume it can’t happen, at least not among people with serious money and power (or university degrees ; ) . . intentionally/systematically, by just such people. The CAGW is not a big misunderstanding, not the byproduct of misguided environmentalism, or social justice fanatics, but an intentional deception perpetrated by “elite” criminals, I believe. The environmental;/social justice stuff is just cover, like bank robbers dressing as nuns to gain armed access without undue suspicion, basically.
I’ll speak plainly.
John, I agree that there is ‘something rotten in Denmark’.
In the US, UK, Canada, Aussieland and Germany both sides of the political aisle are in on it.
I’ve seen far too many punches pulled when one should have gone for the juglar and far too much distraction theatre being played out.
CAGW is a joke.
There are so many holes in the causative relationship between CO2 and CAGW that it’s stupidtalk.
As for temperature data, show me the raw data or prepare to be mocked and shamed.
What do the rulers of Oz want ?
Knute,
Thanks, I suspected it might be the . . . complicated speaking, that was making communication a bit difficult here.
“What do the rulers of Oz want ?”
Simply put; security, I believe. As long as “regular” folks are free to think and speak plainly, as you did, the rulers of Oz are in jeopardy of being deposed, exposed, and/or imprisoned. So they want totalitarian style government they control, naturally, and they want it worldwide, naturally.
John
I have to admit that if I was asleep for 50 years and woke up today, I’d be shocked at a bunch of things. You could be right. The degree of wealth that is in the hands of the upper tier is pretty amazing. http://www.wealthometer.com is a nifty little webpage that puts it in scale.
And yes, to pull off the degree of dishonesty that exists on numerous issues reminds me of protected rackets. It cuts across partisan lines and at times feels like a free for all.
But, I have no proof. No smoking gun that there is a master group orchestrating the takedown of free will.
Knute,
“But, I have no proof. No smoking gun that there is a master group orchestrating the takedown of free will.”
It seems to me you have mentioned several “smoking guns”, within your own mind/awareness, and those are/were smoking away in mine as well . . but being convinced of such a thing as we are discussing here, involved a great deal of consideration and researching into many tangential realms . . I had to see how it could have happened, how such a potential “master group” as you put it, could have been assembled and perpetuated itself long enough to succeed (this far).
The evidence was not hard to find, it’s staring us right in the face, I came to realize. The plethora of “secret societies” and an alphabet soup of “advisory” councils and panels (including the IPCC, and the UN in general), have histories. Those histories are intertwined in many ways, and can be traced back hundreds of years in many cases. And in those histories are people and their writings, which lay out a sort of grand plan, gradually refined and enhanced, that matches incredibly well with what we can see in reality now. A plan for bringing about a “new world order”.
In brief, the plan worked because it offered numerous ways to profit off of collusion with other participants, which is to say organized cheating. The proximity of final fruition was not essential to getting plenty of people with low “self management” traits to participate along the way, just the immediate benefits of being in a gang of criminals. It was basically the detection/realization that such a “class” of people exist, by some in that class, I believe, who described how to discretely recruit, mobilize and organize people like themselves. (As in, A-holes)
JohnKnight,
Yes, even Prof. Richard Lindzen wrote back in 2008 that there’s a conspiracy (see Sec. 2).
The Left decided long ago to make the U.S. media their target. That expanded into the takeover of the Boards of professional organizations, whom Lindzen identifies by name. It is a deliberate, organized effort that uses the 1st amendment to undermine the 1st, the 2nd, and all the rest…
“A potentially effective approach would be to change the incentive structure of science. The current support mechanisms for science is one where the solution of a scientific problem is rewarded by ending support.”
I’ve Read Lindzen’s work but never this link. Thanks DB. Solid stuff.
Science has becomes far more the “business” of science than the oddball pursuit of science.
It’s tough to have a successful business model if the end goal is to put yourself out of business.
The post WW2 love affair with science is coming to a head. It may take a fair amount of pain and suffering from misguided policies coupled with sold out scientists, but the pattern is a death spiral.
Science will come back in some regenesis of the scientific method … well .. because it’s the best flawed idea man has come up with to solve problems. It may even come back as a maturing function of artificial intelligence.
Quite the mess. Sometimes it feels like hyenas feasting on a dead animal.
And now I need to go back to my new happy experiment. I’m too old for a dog but like the company of a pet.
Training the new cat to act like a dog. Come, fetch, go for car rides, walks … appears to be working.
“And in those histories are people and their writings, which lay out a sort of grand plan, gradually refined and enhanced, that matches incredibly well with what we can see in reality now”
John
I definitely down with some good reading material. Especially stuff that connects dots.
Do you have a favorite book/manuscript ?
and please … no t.e lawrence 🙂
@Knute,
There is a discussion and documentation here
inre: Eugenics and other pieces of the puzzle:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/t/t12/
Zeke
Thanks. While I know things like the real story of TDay and leanings of Wells and Shaw, I don’t allow my brain to accept that there is a continual and ever present mindset in the elite to actually “decrease the surplus population”. Perhaps I’m intellectually scared to make the connection between CAGW and eugenics.
I would much rather chalk it up to good old fashioned greed and corruption rather than some organized and flanking pursuit towards a control of masses.
I’m going fishing tomorrow and will dwell on it.
i very much appreciate the rekindling of things that I know that I have buried.
By all means don’t think about that while fishing. Enjoy your trip.
Knute,
For the most part I just kept connecting dots, on the Internet . . I don’t really know of a single book that lays it out, but I’m sure there must be some, this is not new with me by any means.
It seems to me that what we now face, became fairly recognizable about the time of the American Revolution, and Mr. Washington mentioned what he called the “Jacobins” and the “Illuminati”, infiltrating the Freemasons here. Much of the formative writings are couched in quasi-religious stuff, primarily Theosophy/Luciferian/New Age writings, which served both to provide some philosophical type cohesion, and to provide some cover for the antisocial nature of the “movement”. Kinda like the “social justice” clan does now.
Thanks John
I’ll keep searching. You’ve piqued my dormant awareness. Coincidentally, I recently had a disturbing encounter at church services. It was a who’s who of powerful people. I’m not a regular worshiper, but I went as a favor to a friend. It was the after service nature of the whispers among a couple of groups that actually gave me goosebumps. Could be nothing. Could be something. The queasy feeling lingers.
Great wealth and influence is coming together in a manner that I’ve never really seen in my lifetime. I wish I was a 300 year old person that new a better sense of larger trends.
CAGW is a smokescreen. A means to seduce the masses towards following something I cant put my finger on. The disenfranchised will get some of the crumbs that will be just enough to keep them coming along. The new power brokers will create greater control. If I follow the money thoroughly enough, I can figure it out. Unfortunately, the level of sophistication in hiding how the money comes in and to who it goes has reached new levels of skill.
It’s very twilight zonish.
“Realistically, we may not get more than a doubling in government funding of energy R&D—but I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a year from the U.S. government to fund basic research alone.”
He is right about this, in spades. Globally, trillions a year are spent on renewables junk. If even a fraction of this were diverted into research we might see a solution found that replaces fossil fuels anyway. In which case the climate argument becomes academic.
Bill Gates opening his mouth is a far more effective at convincing me to look at Linux then any amount of the usual pro-Linux commentators you find on message boards.
Bill Gates’ statements are offensive on so many levels, I don’t know where to start…
What an amazing economy and country we live in, blessed with freedom and opportunity, where people who can be so smart and clever in some areas such that they amass incredible fortunes, can nevertheless be so clueless and so wrong in other areas.
Why is it that these people always decry the freedoms that allowed them to rise to the heights that they have, but only after they have risen?