Earlier this week, billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates asked the world to rethink its approach to the climate crisis. In a self-published essay , he argues it’s time for a “strategic pivot” from focusing on mitigating rising temperatures to protecting humanity from poverty and disease.

Gates described a “doomsday” perspective that frames rising global temperatures as an existential threat to civilization, claiming this has led the climate community “to focus too much on near-term emissions goals.” He also claims that innovation can save us from the worst impacts of climate change. As such, the global community should instead prioritize preventing human suffering, he concludes.

“The problem is that climate change is not divorced from poverty, or health inequit

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