Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Sunday that he considers efforts to achieve net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 “completely unrealistic”.
Host Chris Wallace
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“It is completely unrealistic to think that we could eliminate emissions by 2030,” replied Gates, adding that “not seeing that this problem is difficult will be part of the difficulty of getting involved in it”.
Gates warned that worsening climate issues would affect other geopolitical factors.
“The migration that we saw from Syria to civil war was somewhat dependent on the climate,” he said. “We will have 10 times more migration because the equatorial areas will become impossible to live, you will not be able to farm or leave during the summer. “
“It is all about degree,” he added. “If we wait another 10 years, it’s not as bad as if we wait 20 or you wait 30 because the temperature keeps rising.”
Wallace also asked Gates about his vision for the launch of coronavirus vaccines, to which Gates replied: “This is giving us light at the end of the tunnel”, but “we need to do the right logistics”.
“I am hopeful that we will reopen more schools, when we arrive in autumn we should avoid waiting there because the level of vaccination will be very high,” he added.
Gates’ comments come as the United States approaches the 500,000 coronavirus death mark, the highest in any country by far. The country has also seen cases of declining viruses and more than 10 percent of the country receiving at least the first dose of the vaccine.