[ExI] bill gates commentary on climate change

[Keith Henson]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
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>> > Time delayed realization: Bill Gates has been a leading promoter of the global warming notion, but last week much to the surprise of me and plenty of others, he backed off of that.  Perhaps he pondered the Singularity notion and concluded (as many or most of us here did) that there is low probability the Singularity will be far in the future.  He realized it is a near-term phenomenon, two or three decades at most, meaning that climate is irrelevant.

I have been writing about this since 1990.  My thought was that people
would mine the carbon out of the air for such things as houses and
engineering projects.  I don't know that people will do this, but it
seems unlikely that climate will be a post-singularity problem.
Between now and then, we are likely to have it rough.

> I think you are probably correct, it's certainly why I don't get all upset when somebody predicts that by 2100 this or that dreadful thing will happen. Anybody who thinks they know what will happen in the year 2100 is simply wrong.

If you are writing about 100 years from now, it may be set in a
remnant of humanity.  I did this in a lead-in chapter to The Clinic
Seed.  I would not be surprised to find the Earth entirely deserted by
that point.

Keith

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