Microsoft founder Bill Gates at the Economic Forum held in Beijing, China on November 21, 2019. Reuters = Yonhap News
Bill Gates, the world’s best moneymaker and Microsoft founder, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, criticized Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, citing the crisis of climate change. Mr. Gates thinks that the move to Mars, which Mr. Musk is claiming, cannot be a fundamental solution to the problem.
Chairman Gates, who recently published a book entitled “Bill Gates, How to Avoid Climate Disaster”, appeared on the podcast’Sway’ run by the New York Times (NYT) on the 15th (local time). “It’s not a good idea to underestimate Elon (Musk),” he said in an interview at Sway, but “(I’m) not a Mars person.” “I don’t think rockets are the answer,” Gates said about how to respond to climate change.
Musk’s CEO has succeeded in electric vehicle maker Tesla, and is evaluated for establishing future automotive technologies that respond to global climate change. In addition, CEO Musk is an innovator who ultimately aims to develop Mars by establishing’Space X’. Chairman Gates gave Park Han’s evaluation of CEO Musk’s achievements and plans. In his book, he insisted on achieving zero (0) greenhouse gas emissions as the top priority in responding to climate change.
In particular, Gates said it was a relatively “easy stuff” for what companies like Tesla have achieved in the automotive sector. It means that other industries need to put more effort into making bigger changes to tackle the planet’s problems.
“Sadly what people think, electricity and cars are one-third of the problem,” said Gates. “So we have to work on the other two-thirds.” Specifically, the fields he pointed to are steel, cement, and meat.
Gates then said he would rather spend money on measles vaccines than travel through space on a rocket. “I don’t want to spend a lot of money because my (charity) foundation can save lives by buying a measles vaccine for $1000,” he said.
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