Bill Gates: The world does not end at 2 degrees.

Bill Gates: "The world does not end at 2 degrees...We will get there. There's no stopping us passing 2 degrees. In temperate zone countries in terms of your overall economy or livelihoods, it's actually not a gigantic thing. Yes, you have to pay to make various changes, you have to have air-conditioning, more like the US does in kind of this pervasive way. The really bad stuff is if you let it go above 3 degrees or if you live near the equator and you're dependent for your food on your yearly harvest, you have no savings. And so the fact that the weather is gonna make things tougher, that really is quite dramatic. And take for example UK. Emissions per person are down very dramatically, you started the coal thing, now you're by and large out of that. The government made some commitments which I think are great to try and have nuclear B complement to the renewables which makes it more feasible to get completely green. There's incredible innovation going on, which I have a group Breakthrough Energy that funds a lot of that. What I'm seeing makes me very hopeful that we'll stay not too far above 2 degrees and that the right adaptations can mean the overall impact is not a super disasters."
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