Bill Gates' book "how to avoid a climate disaster" is being serialised by @BBCRadio4.
Gates recognises that there is no public consensus on the transformation of society required by his political ambition.
Yet he wants to press on, regardless.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Gates recognises that there is no public consensus on the transformation of society required by his political ambition.
Yet he wants to press on, regardless.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
I am beginning to detest billionaires.
If Bill Gates said, "We're going to try to build a political movement, they way they have always been built: through argument and persuasion, and through democratic testing of our agenda", it would be much harder to criticise.
But that's anathema to the eco-billionaire's view.
But that's anathema to the eco-billionaire's view.
Where would Bill be without pandemics and climate change?
He would be that tycoon who made loads of money through aggressive marketing of an operating system, having had family connections to IBM when it counted.
He wants to be more than that.
But why should he be?
He would be that tycoon who made loads of money through aggressive marketing of an operating system, having had family connections to IBM when it counted.
He wants to be more than that.
But why should he be?
The planet-saving billionaires seem to need pandemics and viruses the way politicians need votes.
That seems to me to be a terrible basis for "making the world a better place". And a false promise. Most billionaires are lucky. They are also mostly psychopaths.
That seems to me to be a terrible basis for "making the world a better place". And a false promise. Most billionaires are lucky. They are also mostly psychopaths.
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