Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates speaks at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization conference in London on June 13, 2011. Paul Hackett/AFP/Getty Images
Bill Gates has called on the United Nations to make a “major strategic pivot” from what he termed its “doomsday view” of climate goals toward alleviating poverty and funding vaccines.
If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today,” Gates told reporters during a roundtable discussion on Oct. 28.
