Bill Gates suggested Jeff Bezos to work on a joint project

Bill Gates wants to work more closely with Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, around the climate change which, according to Microsoft’s co-founder, could make the deaths and global impact of the current pandemic small compared to the devastation caused by the climate crisis.

Deaths will only increase as there are more heatwaves and wildfires and, most importantly, the ability to go out and burp anywhere near the equator is lost.Gates said in an interview with Emily Chang of this Bloomberg TelevisionYour book, How to avoid a weather disaster, went on sale earlier this month.

Unlike the pandemic, it’s difficult to get people to focus on disasters that seem to be decades away in time to avoid them.It is a true test for humanity to invest in advance in the problems to comeGates said.

That’s the part where the partnership with Bezos comes in – who has pledged a few million dollars more against climate change than Gates himself, though without giving details – and Gates hopes they can. work together to support costly green alternatives in the early stages of currently available technologiesIn his book, Gates uses the concept of “Green Premium”, the price difference between a traditional carbon-emitting technology, such as a gasoline car, and the environmentally friendly alternative, an electric car. When the price of those newer technologies is too high for mainstream consumers or governments, people like Gates and Bezos can use their capital to boost demand and bring prices down to a level that suits everyone.

“The idea of ​​how to create a demand side for these organic products, even in the early stages, where their organic premium is very high, is something that I realize is one of the missing pieces,” he said. Gates.We want businesses and governments to get involved, but a solid foundation of philanthropic capital to start with would be great

A longtime fan of fast food burgers, Gates much of his early work at Microsoft was fueled by the nearby Burgermaster and was sometimes seen queuing up at Dick’s Burgers in Seattle, replacing half their burger consumption with plant-based products like Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. As they improve, he hopes to increase his consumption, but he doesn’t rule out beef completely.

“Some people are trying to change the cow’s diet or absorb the methane they produce, so, you know, I’d rather not rule out beef,” Gates said.

Gates said he is not a fan of bitcoin, either for environmental reasons, it consumes a lot of energy, or for individual investors not called Elon Musk. “Elon has tons of money and he’s very sophisticated, so I’m not worried about his bitooin going up or down randomly,” he said. “I think people who don’t have that much money to spare get carried away by these manias, so I’m not a bitcoin fan, and my general thought would be that if you have less money than Elon, you should probably be careful.”

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