Ep35 – Does Bill Gates’ Prescription for Avoiding a Climate Disaster Give Too Much Power to the Government?

In this episode of Mentally Unscripted, Paul and Scott review How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates.

Resources

• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change

• Biden administration considers withholding funds and other measures to spur vaccinations

• Pfizer hikes 2021 outlook after vaccine boosts sales, profit

• Pfizer’s full FDA approval could lead to even greater profits

• We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So, Scientific American Colludes with Other Major Media to Normalize ‘Climate Emergency’ Terminology

• US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries

• Elizabeth Warren calls for a crackdown on 'environmentally wasteful cryptocurrencies' to fight the climate crisis

• Most COVID-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions

• CDC study finds about 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese

• Impossible and Beyond: How healthy are these meatless burgers?

• Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost Nine of Ten COVID-19 Deaths: Time to Act.

• CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency

Top Takeaways

• Gates assumes that climate change is real and that we can do something about it.

• We must get to net 0 carbon emissions by 2050. Gates' position is that avoiding a climate disaster will come through innovation, not from reducing our demand for energy. We must develop greener technologies to accommodate our energy demand.

• Neither Paul nor Scott will give up eating meat.

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