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On Feb 16th, #Bill Gates will be in conversation with @Trevornoah about his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
#Gates’s approach to climate change is to embrace “innovation” and new technologies including geoengineering, large-scale planetary interventions with potentially dangerous impacts. @GeoEngMon Read more here: https://bit.ly/3ba3E4W
Gates is a major investor in @CarbonEngineer a Canada-based Direct Air Capture firm, which aims to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. https://bit.ly/37dIPV6
@BillGates has also given the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER) at least US$4.6 million as of 2012. FICER is the main source of financing for research related to solar geoengineering.
Meanwhile, @BillGates has significant financial interests in #FossilFuel extraction. Since 2011, Gates has been the single largest shareholder in Canadian National (CN) Railroads for at least four years. CN makes big profits by shipping crude oil from Canada’s tar sands to market
Tar sands operations are among the dirtiest and most environmentally destructive forms of fossil fuel extraction.
#Microsoft, in which Gates still has stocks, has signed deals with #oil giants like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3ba3E4W
#Geoengineering is the fossil fuel industry’s only chance to keep on extracting and burning
We urge @Trevornoah to either ask @BillGates critical questions about his investments in fossil fuel extraction or cease to give #Gates a public platform on climate change.
@BillGates is not a disinterested observer seeking solutions to the climate crisis. He is a billionaire who made a fortune skirting government regulations with monopolistic practices, and holds a significant financial stake in the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
