The businessman, one of the driving forces behind Agenda 2030, also criticized the 'apocalyptic view of climate change.'
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Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and one of the main promoters of Agenda 2030, surprised this week with a statement that marks a substantial shift in his stance, as he admitted that climate change "will not lead to the extinction of humanity."
In a post on his Gates Notes website, the businessman called for a "strategic shift" in the fight against the "climate crisis," suggesting that the world should stop obsessing over temperature limits and emission reduction targets to focus on more concrete goals, such as combating poverty and disease.
El empresario Bill Gates.
"Although climate change will have serious consequences, especially for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to the extinction of humanity. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future," Gates wrote, distancing himself from the alarmist discourse that he himself helped amplify for years.
The magnate also took the opportunity to criticize what he described as an "apocalyptic view of climate change," focused "too much on short-term emissions targets." In his opinion, the upcoming COP30 climate summit, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, should be an opportunity to "refocus on the metric that really matters: improving lives."
El empresario Bill Gates.
Gates's acknowledgment comes just after the UN warned that humanity failed to meet its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. However, the businessman doesn't share the narrative of total catastrophe promoted by Secretary-General António Guterres, who spoke of "devastating consequences" and "tipping points" in ecosystems.
From a more skeptical perspective, Gates's words expose a contradiction that many critics of Agenda 2030 have been pointing out for years: Behind the climate emergency rhetoric lies an extreme left-wing ideological vision that seeks to justify greater regulations, taxes, and restrictions on economic development.
By now acknowledging that the planet is not on the brink of collapse, Gates implicitly validates what right-wing sectors have maintained for decades, and that humanity's most urgent problems have nothing to do with failed apocalyptic climate projections.
