Billionaire Bill Gates says we should back away from urgent emissions cuts and bet instead on tomorrow’s tech. But unless that innovation is democratically controlled, it will serve the same interests that caused the climate crisis in the first place.
And billionaires are so separated from the concerns, needs, and worries of even people as rich as average millionaires that it boggles the mind. Bill Gates has no capacity to understand what the average person is going through and can’t be trusted to lead when he’s only leading from his own viewpoint.