Essay by Eric Worrall
Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants us all to eat fake vegetable meat and embrace nuclear power, to avert the climate crisis.
Bill Gates: We will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, nuclear can be ‘super safe’ and fake meat will eventually be ‘very good’
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- The world will not be able to avoid overshooting the goal established in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to limit global warming to, ideally, 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-Industrial levels, Bill Gates told Reddit users on Wednesday.
- While it’s “great” if people want to be vegan, Gates doesn’t think most people will do that and thinks that alternative meat products will “eventually” be “very good.”
- Individuals who want to contribute to climate change mitigation can do thinks like vote, buy an electric car and stay optimistic.
The world will not be able to avoid overshooting the goal established in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-Industrial levels, according to Bill Gates.
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“The pace of innovation is really picking up even though we won’t make the current timelines or avoid going over 1.5,” Gates wrote in response to a question about how well the world is responding to climate change.
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The advanced nuclear reactors TerraPower are building use liquid sodium as the coolant and uranium as a fuel source.
“We are making excellent progress,” Gates said, while also acknowledging that the Ukraine war has thrown a wrench in TerraPower’s plans because the reactors planned to operate with fuel coming from Russia and that relationship is no longer viable.
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Gates has backed several companies working to make meatless meat products, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, he told Reddit users. And he’s also backed Memphis Meats (which has since rebranded under the name Upside Foods), Gates said, and which takes cells from an actual animals and grows the products in laboratory environments.
“I think eventually these products will be very good even though their share is small today,” Gates told Reddit. It’s important to innovate alternative ways to produce meat alternatives and climate conscious ways because, “for people who want to go Vegan that is great but I don’t think most people will do that,” Gates said.
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“We need support on climate from both parties in the US and in all countries,” Gates said. Also, “staying hopeful is a good thing!”
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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overshoot-1point5-degrees-of-global-warming.html
Impossible Foods, one of the companies Bill Gates invested in, laid off staff last October, but claims sales are growing rapidly.
Vegan Meat Leader Impossible Foods Lays Off 6% of Staff Despite Steady Growth. What’s Next?
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By Jill Ettinger Last updated Oct 12, 2022Impossible Foods, the Bay Area vegan meat brand behind Burger King’s Impossible Whopper, says it recently laid off six percent of its workforce. Is it a sign of more cuts or more growth ahead?
According to Impossible Foods’ CEO Peter McGuinness, the recent spate of layoffs come as part of the company’s restructuring, following his appointment as CEO in April. McGuiness said in a memo to employees that the layoffs involve “roles that have become redundant to others in the organization or that are no longer aligned with our core business priorities.”
Plant-based meat sales on the decline
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An Impossible Foods spokesperson told Green Queen that “contrary to reports about the performance of the plant-based meat category and a number of companies within it, we’re seeing hyper growth, with over 60% year-over-year sales growth in retail alone. Earlier this week we proactively made some organizational changes that strengthen our company and establish clear supply and demand functions to position us for our next phase of expansion. As a result, some roles were eliminated, but we’re continuing to actively recruit for key positions that will enable our continued growth.”
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Read more: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/impossible-foods-lays-off-staff-despite-steady-growth/
I’m OK with nuclear power, but in my opinion this fake meat push is going to kill people.
I’ve lost over 10Kg in three months since I switched to a mostly meat diet, on the advice of medical specialists. Some people’s metabolisms simply cannot tolerate a carb and vegetable rich diet. I believe banning meat, having to eat fake meat, would be a death sentence for me and people like me.
I’ll leave it to your imagination what I think Bill Gates can do with his climate friendly fake meat.
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What does the staff in the vegan burger bar ask when you order?
Do you want your B12 with that?
I am remaining hopeful….that billygates has one of the very common “unexplained coincidences” thats dropping so many others in the last 2 yrs
You think he took his own “vaccine”?
From the article: “The world will not be able to avoid overshooting the goal established in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to limit global warming to, ideally, 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-Industrial levels, Bill Gates told Reddit users on Wednesday.”
Gates assumes he knows how much warmth a certain amount of CO2 will add to Earth’s atmosphere. But that’s all it is, an assumption. To date, there is no measureable effect on the Earth’s atmosphere from CO2.
There is no evidence that CO2 is the control knob of Earth’s temperatures. Bill Gates can assume it is all he wants, but that doesn’t make it so.
Our leaders are assuming us right into poverty with their delusional view of CO2.
Bill should join his pal Jeffrey.
As we are almost at 1.5c rise since the LIA I predict that no one will notice if or when we get to 1.5, a completely meaningless number as we know. Well, it’s politically meaningful.
People who can read understand that most of the 1.3c to date is north of 55 degrees at night and in winter, 4x faster warming there than elsewhere which is why the continental USA shows negligible change.
The northern warming has been 100% positive for humans and animals and plants, no demonstrated ill effects to date.
I look forward to 1.5, 2, and whatever nature brings
I’d like a little runaway global warming to reduce my heating bill, which is significantly increased by the ass holes worried about warming.
Gates again proves that being smart about one thing doesn’t mean you are smart about other things.
Damn! Fake meat, and now fake vegetables to make “fake vegetable meat”…
He’s one of the WEF perps of the looming “Climate-Policy-Caused-Disaster” that could rival the worst Gov’t Policy Disasters of the 20th Century in terms of human casualties. Sri Lanka was the proof-of-concept for what can be achieved.
Vitamin B12 is important. It comes from animal products. (Maybe also Brewers Yeast?). Foods fortified with B12 got it from animals. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/vitamin-b12/
One of the symptoms/effects of a B12 deficiency is psychological. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22831-vitamin-b12-deficiency
Man is an omnivore.
No amount of green dreaming will change that.
They want to redesign the human body, the digestive tract, and provide as many sexes as there are genders.
When you violate common sense and sound engineering principles, failure is the result.
Some people get rich doing something and no longer have the common sense to keep their trap shut about other things.
Clowns should not build nuclear power plants. The engineer sharing an office with me once went to a meeting dressed as Bozo stating he wanted the clowns to to feel comfortable.
Bill Gates is not building a nuke plant. How do I know? I looked it up. Got into an argument about it. When you have a construction permit from the NRC, then maybe you could build a nuke.
Bill Gates is a clown.
Economy of scale is an engineering principle that applies to nukes. The US navy operates small nukes on ships. Some of the first commercial reactors were small based on navy design. With experience, there output got larger and larger. My last reactor was 1600 MWe.
Why bother with small reactors?
I used work with clowns at WPPSS. They changed their name to Energy Northwest. I have not been following their progress closely. It is a train wreck that I do not have to watch.
There is a fallacy that nuclear power is failing because we are not building new reactors. The environmental impact of a power plant can be reduce by making the plant last longer.
My fist commercial start up is head for 60 years and doing the work for 80 years.
Bill Gates is an expert in marketing and being pornographically rich. He doesn’t know squat about food and energy systems though he may accidentally be on the right track around nuclear. Letting him shape our views and policy in these areas is as catastrophically foolish as letting Greta Thunderpants or some narcissistic actor (e.g. Leo Dicrapio) feed us our opinions.
to quote a song from my past…”you can’t even run your own life, I’ll be damned if you’ll run mine”
Tom
By the way the song I referred to is “Sunshine” by Jonathan Edwards in 1971