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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire climate activist Bill Gates said on Sunday that eradicating climate change would be more difficult than ending the coronavirus pandemic.
Gates, who channeled millions into coronavirus aid efforts last year, told the BBC that ending the pandemic is “very, very easy” compared to the climate crisis, which will get worse unless governments around the world help in this. effort.
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In fact, Gates said that financing a solution to climate change would be “the most incredible thing that humanity has ever done”.
Currently, the world emits about 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year. The objective is to reduce net zero emissions, which means achieving an equal balance between greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere and those that are removed.
Bill Gates, co-president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing, China, on November 21, 2019. (Takaaki Iwabu / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Cutting these emissions requires the collective effort of governments around the world, he argued.
“We need to have price signals to tell the private sector that we want green products,” said Gates.
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Governments will not only have to invest heavily in research and development of new green products, but they will also have to allow these products and technologies to grow on the market, the outlet said.
Although this effort takes more than just one person, Gates said during an interview on CBS’s “60 minutes” program that he is paying $ 7 million a year to offset his own carbon footprint.
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In addition to his own efforts, Gates is encouraging others – if they can do so – to buy carbon offsets and green products that can bring the world closer to zero net emissions. His hope is that in doing so, the cost of production to reduce carbon emissions will decrease while the quality of the products increases.
Although it is difficult, Gates said it is not impossible.
“There are days when it seems very difficult,” he said. “If people think it is easy, they are wrong. If people think it is impossible, they are wrong.”