Thread by @NavdanyaInt

New publication by @NavdanyaInt: Bill Gates & his Fake solutions to #ClimateChange" - Technofixes, Industrial Ag, Billionaires Ventures, & Fake Food will not save our Planet - Biodiversity & Agroecology are True Solutions to Climate Change bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Behind a humanitarian veil, Bill Gates favours the interests of corporations, promoting failed technological solutions that harm ecosystems & divert attention from the deep systemic changes needed to address the crises we are facing today bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

The common thread that runs through all Bill Gates' programs is the idea that innovation and the market will always save us, that any problem can (and should only) be solved through technology bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva #Gates2GlobalEmpire

Bill Gates's million-dollar investments allow him to impose his strategy through direct influence over all types of global development protagonists, from international and state policy to private companies, the media and public opinion bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Bill Gates plans to stop global warming by reducing emissions to zero, while his push for short-term techno-fixes, investments & political agenda show little alignment with the goal of truly fighting #climatechange, hunger & poverty bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Gates’ private market & power interests are particularly apparent in his push for agricultural transformation. Through programs like #AGRA, #AgOne #Ag Tech, the #BMGF has been pushing an industrial agricultural model for decades bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Gates’ @Breakthrough Energy Ventures investment fund is supported by billionaires. They ‘Help the world get to net-zero’ by funding companies riddled with BigAg BigFood & BigTech (ex DuPont & Monsanto + PepsiCo & Microsoft executives) bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

The same corporations which precipitated our health & ecological crisis & have continually denied the detrimental effects of their innovations are now selling us back equally risky solutions to the problems they created bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

#Climatechange cannot be fully addressed without recognizing the central role of the industrialized & globalized food system in creating the climate crisis
bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva #Gates2GlobalEmpire bit.ly/NIReport2020

#Patents on fake food growing techniques,which Gates invests in,are a profit making tool for corporations & billionaires, shifting power toward biotech companies & ignoring solutions offered by the regenerative organic agriculture movement bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

We don't need to go further down the path that has destroyed biodiversity & rural economies by following techno-fixes. #Agroecology is another path, providing a long-lasting solution to #climatechange and working to ensure food sovereignty bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

2 futures are emerging. 1 leads to the regeneration of our planet, health & democracy. The other leads to the collapse of the ecosystems. The future of diverse species, our common future, & our daily bread depend on which road we take bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

#FakeFood is a fake solution aiming to replace meat without challenging the profit-driven capitalist food and farming industry, which explains why we will soon see Beyond Meat burgers in McDonald’s plant-based menus bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Far from ending #climatechange or world hunger, synthetic meat still relies on an industrial agricultural model, based on monocultures, toxic pesticides and #GMOs, that is destroying our ecosystems and threatening our health bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

#FakeFood lacks the natural benefits contained in whole foods and is likely to have a range of adverse long-term health outcomes due to being highly processed and containing ingredients like isolated pea proteins and canola oil bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

The @Breakthrough Energy Ventures investment fund highlights this game of billionaire profit-making and corporate partnerships while being thrown into the spotlight as a symbol of Gates’ commitment to solving #climatechange bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

Out of the multiple startups funded by #Breakthrough, seven are involved in the areas of food and agriculture, particularly through the development and marketing of #SyntheticBiology and biotechnology products bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

#Breakthrough illustrates the flight of ex-industrial agriculture company executives to new biotech startups, signalling the next iteration of industrial agriculture concentration and market expansion bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva