Over the past week, you may have come across headlines like this: “ Bill Gates bends the knee on climate change ,” or “ The week Bill Gates backtracked on climate change — and sent eco fanatics into meltdown ,” or even “ Bill Gates gives up on climate change .”
But did the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist really say climate change isn’t important?
The whole discussion started due to a poorly timed memo — issued by Gates on the very day that Jamaica was devastated by a powerful Category 5 hurricane.
It begins with this: “There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:
“In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us — just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.
“Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong.
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