Why Bill Gates and John Kerry are wrong about climate change
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There’s a recent phenomenon in which smart people, mostly white men, parachute down from a higher plane to tell us mere mortals the truth about fighting climate change. Colorfully dubbed “first-time climate dudes” by journalist Emily Atkin of the newsletter
Heated, they invariably offer some version of doom and gloom, whether it’s Bill Gates calling any attempt to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions to near zero “a fairy tale”, or novelist Jonathan Franzen proclaiming in the
New Yorker that we must “accept that disaster is coming.”
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If no further efforts to slow are made to slow greenhouse gas emissions, unbearable temperatures, constant mask-wearing and depression could be in people’s.