Hi. This is not true. Like seriously enormously not true. It& #39;s cute letting a celebrity billionaire be your climate policy figurehead [editor& #39;s note: it& #39;s really not], but this is straight up shouting predatory delay using the US govt as a megaphone.
1/ https://twitter.com/tgradous/status/1385907479637336067">https://twitter.com/tgradous/...

I have never heard a SINGLE climate scientist working on mitigation saying we are missing technology, let alone a made up number like 45% of technology. I have heard ALL OF them say we lack the political will to act immediately, which we need to do, with all the tech we have.
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So we have a billionaire making one of the central arguments to *not* act on climate immediately, but instead invest in speculative tech. Color me so surprised we wrote a whole damn paper on "discourses of delay" - and @leolinne made Bill& #39;s persona.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...

Cannot even express how angry and disappointed this makes me in @POTUS & @SecRaimondo . It& #39;s wrong, it& #39;s corrupt, it& #39;s evil, and the US is chock-full of amazing scientists and engineers who could do better climate policy and communication than Bill Gates before breakfast.
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Even more glad we wrote this one now. A wealth tax IS climate policy, everyone. It really is.
5/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/...

Just going to remind everyone of this as well. Bill Gates has a history of wrecking international policy to maintain profits. Don& #39;t trust him on climate.
End/ https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines">https://newrepublic.com/article/1...

Aaand I just went back to the original article and it& #39;s very clear that "we& #39;re missing half the technology" is shorthand for "I refuse to consider reductions in energy demand to be climate policy."
Which ...

1) reductions in energy consumption ≠ reductions in energy services delivered. There is a thing called efficiency.
2) reductions in energy are not a bad thing if its purpose is useless overconsumption (something a billionaire might know about, cough). https://twitter.com/PeterJNewell_/status/1384075777101090830">https://twitter.com/PeterJNew...

3) energy use and human development are not as closely linked as you might think when you look at the evidence
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7461
4)">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1... we can model universal sufficient energy at LESS THAN HALF what we use now by 2050 using EXISTING technology ffs. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102168">https://doi.org/10.1016/j...

5) And to top it off, a more equitable world is easier to decarbonize using EXISTING technology than one with billionaires, another argument for a wealth tax. https://theconversation.com/why-a-more-equal-world-would-be-easier-to-decarbonise-153593">https://theconversation.com/why-a-mor...

Add your own arguments in replies because I am about to rage-stroke over here. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Wütendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wütendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😡" title="Schmollendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Schmollendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💣" title="Bombe" aria-label="Emoji: Bombe">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💀" title="Schädel" aria-label="Emoji: Schädel">

Bill Gates, this doofus mascarading as an expert, is literally making arguments to delay climate action because we "need" new technology to decarbonise his wasteman wasteful lifestyle.

I am outspoken and sometimes say things that go too far on this hellsite. I am trying hard here to be somewhat measured. But how in god& #39;s name is this not evil? How? It& #39;s wrong, it& #39;s misleading, it prevents positive immediate action, it protects wealth & inequality. I just can& #39;t.

And of course the incomparable @krustelkram made a perfect representation of @BillGates in her comic book adaptation of the "discourses of delay" paper. Bang to rights.
https://www.celinekeller.com/discourses-of-climate-delay">https://www.celinekeller.com/discourse...