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Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com
I just got shown this speech of Bill Gates, if it was any other source but straight from his own mouth I'd put this in conspiracy zone... but I'm pretty sure that he's calling for 10-15% human population reduction... or more.
Let's start with a couple highlights
- CO2 -> temperature increase -> negative effects (pretty much a direct quote as to his understanding of the intricacies of the environment)
- There is just 'small uncertainties' in how much the temperature will be on any given day based on the co2 concentration.
- "We have no idea how bad the effects will be but scientists say that it will be very bad." - Orwellian double-speech / crimestop
- Innovating to 0 (co2) : "Untill we get to near 0 CO2 the temperature is going to go UP."
- Average north american produces 20 tonnes of CO2, in poorer countries it's less then 1 tonne (produces through exhalation).
- First graph shows that Co2 did not exist prior to 1855.
HERE is where it starts to get sick :
- CO2 = P * S * E * C : That is CO2 (which MUST be "near 0") = PEOPLE * Services /(per) person * energy / service * Co2 / energy. Look closely at this equation... Gates even says it himself "In order for CO2 to get close to zero something in this equation is going to have to drop close to 0.
He could be talking about zeroing out S, E, or C... but he is NOT... Because as long as people are around they will be paying for services that use energy and produce co2... PEOPLE in his equation is THE ONLY factor that can be reduced close to 0 and be workable in the real world.
- "The world population is around 6.8 billion people going up to 9 billion(????), now if we do a REALLY GREAT JOB with vaccines, health care, and reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by around 10 or 15 percent."
The rest of this speech is talking about energy innovation... but he later says that by 2020 we should have a 20% co2 reduction increasing to 80% by 2050. I guess we better hope that there's some intense 'green energy' implementation, or eventually it'll be the people who are going to have to go.
Anyway... I'd make a longer commentary, but it's getting late over here.
I just got shown this speech of Bill Gates, if it was any other source but straight from his own mouth I'd put this in conspiracy zone... but I'm pretty sure that he's calling for 10-15% human population reduction... or more.
Let's start with a couple highlights
- CO2 -> temperature increase -> negative effects (pretty much a direct quote as to his understanding of the intricacies of the environment)
- There is just 'small uncertainties' in how much the temperature will be on any given day based on the co2 concentration.
- "We have no idea how bad the effects will be but scientists say that it will be very bad." - Orwellian double-speech / crimestop
- Innovating to 0 (co2) : "Untill we get to near 0 CO2 the temperature is going to go UP."
- Average north american produces 20 tonnes of CO2, in poorer countries it's less then 1 tonne (produces through exhalation).
- First graph shows that Co2 did not exist prior to 1855.
HERE is where it starts to get sick :
- CO2 = P * S * E * C : That is CO2 (which MUST be "near 0") = PEOPLE * Services /(per) person * energy / service * Co2 / energy. Look closely at this equation... Gates even says it himself "In order for CO2 to get close to zero something in this equation is going to have to drop close to 0.
He could be talking about zeroing out S, E, or C... but he is NOT... Because as long as people are around they will be paying for services that use energy and produce co2... PEOPLE in his equation is THE ONLY factor that can be reduced close to 0 and be workable in the real world.
- "The world population is around 6.8 billion people going up to 9 billion(????), now if we do a REALLY GREAT JOB with vaccines, health care, and reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by around 10 or 15 percent."
The rest of this speech is talking about energy innovation... but he later says that by 2020 we should have a 20% co2 reduction increasing to 80% by 2050. I guess we better hope that there's some intense 'green energy' implementation, or eventually it'll be the people who are going to have to go.
Anyway... I'd make a longer commentary, but it's getting late over here.