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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Representative Democracy is a major problem in the world today.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were extremely gifted individuals, and that is why they did not create a Representative Democracy in the United States of America. They created a Constitutional Republic with limited Democratic Process and Strong Checks and Balances.
Unfortunately, the Marxists have been chipping away at the constitutional, Limited Democratic Process and Strong Checks and Balances aspects for 160 years.
The only strange thing that I find about this degradation is that it has been the Republican party that has done the most to gut the protections of Americans. First with the Civil War and forced integration of the states, followed by the direct enfranchisement of of all males, The change to the Constitution from State Appointed Senators to popularly voted in Senators, to the income tax amendment and the right for women to vote.
It is really sickening to see how ruined the United States has become, with so much of the damage having been accomplished by the supposed conservative party.
One telling anecdote is that prior to the Civil War, the US was referred to as “these united States”.
After the Civil War the phrase had changed to “the United States”.
Before the emphasis was on the individual states that had joined in union.
After the emphasis was on the union.
PS: One of the two biggest mistakes that has been made in this country was the changing of the election of the senators from having them selected by state legislatures to having them be directly elected. Their purpose was to represent the states interests in Washington, the people already had a body that represented their interests. By making the senators elected by the people, you pretty much guaranteed that the states would wither away in importance, since now, everyone in Washington saw it in their interests to grow the power of the central govt.
The Civil War. In principal, that is, the authority of the States versus the authority of Washington, the South was right. In the issue, slavery, that brought it to a head, the South was dead wrong.
The result?
More authority to the elite to make us all slaves.
If Spoc had only added a line to the effect, “But they remain slaves.”
So they’re all going off the rails. And does anyone think Bill Gates is in it for the money?
Gates is in it for the control:
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/12096266_1129652527076514_4162494832249527775_n.jpg
“Windows 8 is so much better than Windows XP. You have hardware and programs that won’t work with Vista … er … Windows 7 …er…8? You don’t have a cell phone or a touch screen so you don’t need Windows 8, you say? No problem! We’ll end support for Windows XP. Now you you have a choice! We’ll even give you Windows 10 for free!! We know best.”
An AlaGorey.
What’s best for them, is best for us.
Embracing the first release of new SW is a fool’s game, unless you are buying a new computer loaded with it. Wait until
“Corporate” organizations tend to wait to get stability – Intel for example skipped Vista, then did a pilot run of 7 (for example, something like 50 computers, best done across different departments).
As for Microsoft being a monopoly, that’s a crock. Hypocritical yes, such as the boss of its travel operation whining when Microsoft was in a legal fight.
Many false claims about Microsoft, including:
– that they introduced Encarta then raised the price, reality is the opposite occurred
– that they fouled up software of a Seattle area company, reality is there was a defect in the company’s software (an outsider had to point that out, the complainer wasn’t competent to figure it out)
– that they paid too little for the surplus OS they expanded into DOS (the person who sold it too them publicly says he has not regrets, it was surplus to their needs and they could really use the money at the time).
I think you missed the point.
I wasn’t condemning actual advances in technology. Windows 8 may well be better for those with “smart phones” etc. I don’t have them. I don’t need the latest and greatest. To my right is a very good scanner that is now just taking up space because nothing later than XP supports it. I had programs I liked and knew how to use that won’t run in an OS past XP. Someone decided that their new OS is so much better than their old OS that I shouldn’t use those things anymore. Who benefits? Not me.
PS How long before their latest OS becomes a subscription service?
Bill’s a smart guy; it’s hard to see him falling for this kind of stuff. (And he certainly isn’t “out for control” – that’s peasant thinking about the prominent amongst us. He has all the control he needs – is his philanthropy for the purposes of control?)
Thinking about this some more, it occurred to me that maybe he’s trying to placate his wife. (This would also explain why he tends to go in opposite directions in practically every answer he gives.)
rw.
“…that’s peasant thinking about the prominent amongst us.”
The peasants were, by definition, correct, weren’t they?
Have you read any history at all?
The context of Gates talk is about next generation nuclear. He’s rumored to have invested $2 billion.
Machines and medicine designs are allowed patents which generally run 17 years…as opposed to copyrights which are 70+ years depending.
A fundamental problem with doing R&D in the nuclear sector is that the patents expire before you’ve managed to get regulatory approval and demonstrate at scale your 1st plant.
Another wealthy dufus brainwashed by the globalists. Take some courses in government, Bill. The problem is not with representative government, it is with the with the expansion of federal powers, and the dilution of state sovereignty and authority.
http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/regional-climate-initiatives/rggi
A taste of regional states bonding on CAGW initiatives. It’s a pretty detailed and decade long strategy. Gives good insight on how states align with regions to execute strategy.
when you consider the entire global warming myth is hitched upon the “BIG lie”.. the HUGE lie that carbon dioxide is a poison,repeated ad nauseum by all the PTB who will benefit from a global carbon tax starting with numero uno climatard Al Gore from Gore and Blood Inc.[what a spookily strange co-incidence. ey?] NOT] that purchased a CA. seaside home just months after predicting rising sea levels would flood homes built on beachside homes and businesses around the world from melting glaciers caused by global warming..talk about narcissism and hypocrisy..
..it should take any warm,breathing individual with a heartbeat/pulse,about 5 seconds [or less] to determine global warming is pure unaduterated bullshipt..what TPTB ARE doing,is making it unseasonably colder and wetter in some areas of the world, while making it unseasonably hotter and bone dry in others with chemtrails[California heading into its 7th year of exceptional drought would be a prime example] with their geoengineering-chemtrail-HAARP, heating up of the ionisphere,which stop the forming of cloud/low pressure moisture,while at the same time critically damaging the ozone layer program,..a EOTEAWKI program that Dane Wigington at geoengineeringwatch.org proves time and time again and again with photos,interviews with top climatolagists,and videotaped trips into the dying forests of California he is more familar with than just about anyone in California..according to Dane,and many other truth telling scientists as well,if chemtrailing/geo-engineering is not stopped soon,it will be TEOTWAWKI event ,as will GMO’s[the GMO jeanie CAN NOT be put back into the bottle now…eventually.. every plant on earth will be infected by GMO’s..its only a matter of time before the human specie will be unable to re-produce,and man’s reign on earth will be over,for all intensive purposes..going into bunkers WTSHTF whether it be a nuke attack or other catastrophic event, is a great place to hang out..[ until all is clear],,but what about when you emerge from your bunker/ hole to a dead earth/planet that is now unable to sustain life?..you simply CAN NOT continue to destroy/extinct specie after specie after specie with poison chemtrails be it aquatic life/species or wilderness life/species,and continue to destroy the chain of life..carbon dioxide is btw, a major part of the chain…duh…
.do these climate lunatics ever wonder what plants breathe? and then in turn give off in return? that would be CARBON DIOXIDE and oxygen respectively..the folks that made the Idiot box[TV] haven’t “dumbed down” the masses..they’ve turned them into brain dead imbeciles,with IQ’s equivalent to George W. Bush on a non-hangover “good day”….
Bill Gates is right. Representative Democracy doesn’t work very well.
Winston Churchill said (or is said to have said) “Democracy is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others…” Wise statement from the old warrior. Just learn to live with it.
Within the democratic system, Gates could use his money to buy votes. That’s what everyone else does these days, isn’t it.
Yes, and while he’s at it, Gates can help discared the 1st Amendment:
https://youtu.be/ozfaLzjjZyE