Bill Gates Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

• Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

  Bill Gates

  Priorities, Environmental, Needs

• I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

  Bill Gates

  War, Epidemics, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Ecosystems, Climate

• It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

  Bill Gates

  Ecosystems, People, Climate

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on How to Stop Global Warming". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

• People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

  Bill Gates

  People, Climate, Enough

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

• We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

  Bill Gates

  People, Risk, Climate

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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