Hi. This is not true. Like seriously enormously not true. It's cute letting a celebrity billionaire be your climate policy figurehead [editor's note: it'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
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's persona.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7
Cannot even express how angry and disappointed this makes me in @POTUS & @SecRaimondo . It's wrong, it's corrupt, it'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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Aaand I just went back to the original article and it's very clear that "we'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
Add your own arguments in replies because I am about to rage-stroke over here. 😠😡🤯💣💀

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's name is this not evil? How? It's wrong, it's misleading, it prevents positive immediate action, it protects wealth & inequality. I just can'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
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