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Rich people like Bill Gates, and the politicians they own like John Kerry, have a reassuring message for us all. 😃

It's not necessary, they say, for everyone to change their lifestyles in order to fight climate change. We don't have to stop eating meat, or shopping, or driving our huge SUVs to work every day. No one needs to stop flying around the world using their private jets, or taking luxury cruises on their million-dollar yachts.

Why? Because capitalism can solve the climate crisis!

Really? Yes!!

(Well, no, not really. It's a fantasy being sold to us by billionaires who have no interest in real change.)
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Gates, who is estimated to be the fourth-richest person on Earth, said it was not realistic to expect that the climate crisis could be addressed by personal choices such as giving up eating meat.

The notion that climate change is too big a problem to be solved by individual lifestyle decisions is commonly held by many, like Gates, who are working to address what they see as a crisis. Even John Kerry, President Biden's climate envoy, has signaled that new technology will need to be developed for the world to achieve emissions goals.

“Fifty percent of the reductions we have to make to get to net zero by 2050 or 2045 are going to come from technologies that we don’t yet have,” Kerry told the BBC in 2021.

Kerry singled out TerraPower, a company backed by Gates that is working on developing advanced nuclear fission reactors, as one hopeful example.

“There are a lot of possibilities out there,” he said. “Bill Gates is pursuing a small, modular next-generation nuclear capacity. We’re going to find our way to zero emissions as fast as possible.”

FULL STORY -- yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-clim

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