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Is it realistic to ask people to stop eating meat and traveling to fight climate change?
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the answer might be no.
“With the climate movement, you can say, ‘We spent too much,’ or, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t be traveling anymore,'” March 1.
“Will all Indians be vegetarian? Will all Americans be vegetarian? I don’t expect that. I want to preach that everyone is welcome.” added Gates.
Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Gates has since focused on philanthropy and global issues. leave He started his full-time job at Microsoft in 2008. This non-profit foundation works to fight disease and aid other global issues, including gender inequality. He published How to Prevent the Next Pandemic in May 2022.
foundation again Like his venture fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, he supports climate change initiatives.
Gates was having a conversation with Anant Goenka, executive director of the Indian Express Group, a media company founded by Ramnath Goenka in 1936. per Indian Express.
Gates touched on many climate-related issues, from support for nuclear energy to disagreements that the solution to climate change can come by asking people to lead a “poor lifestyle.”
Researcher and climate activist Richard Heed Indicated Nearly two-thirds of carbon emissions come from or are supplied by 90 business and government-run business sectors. However, meat is a pretty significant carbon producer, he points out to CNBC.the study It was published The Nature Food Journal found that plant-based foods have about half the climate footprint of animal-based products.
Gates pondered the challenge of changing the way the world produces energy at the event and the disproportionate impact on countries near the equator, which are generally not large carbon emitters.
Climate change is one of the most difficult problems to fix because “modern economies around the world are based on energy intensity, with more than 80% of their energy coming from burning hydrocarbons,” he said. said at the event.
maximum carbon emitter Includes China, USA and India. In December, Gates also spoke about his views on climate change.
In a December 2022 blog post, Gates said, “The solution to climate change can be summed up in two sentences: By 2050, we must eliminate global emissions of greenhouse gases. per CNBC.
“Extreme weather is already causing more suffering. If we do not reach net-zero emissions, our grandchildren will grow up in a dramatically worse world,” he added.