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Speaker 1: Now. I think the biggest test for those who fell

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Speaker 1: over backwards when Bill Gates said what he did yesterday

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Speaker 1: is not that he said it. It's whether the people

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Speaker 1: he talks about can possibly begin to accept that they

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Speaker 1: might be wrong, They might be on the wrong side

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Speaker 1: of the whole equation, and that is a result of

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Speaker 1: the Gates revelation they may need We can only hope

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Speaker 1: to readjust some of the obsessive behavior they've shown these

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Speaker 1: past few years, as climate change has become the maniacal

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Speaker 1: calling card for too many. Not that climate change, as

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Speaker 1: Bill points out, isn't an issue, because it is, and

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Speaker 1: some good work has been done. But where Gates is

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Speaker 1: so right and deserve so much respect, is that he

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Speaker 1: has worked out that there has been an astonishing amount

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Speaker 1: of waste in the area. Lord knows what amount of time, energy,

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Speaker 1: and money has been spent on too many things going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Climate change, he concludes, will not Why pass out now?

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Speaker 1: There are more pressing areas. He's concluded his new passion

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Speaker 1: is hunger. Usaid has been smashed to pieces by the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration people as a result of literally dying. In

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Speaker 1: other words, he's prioritizing he's pragmatic. He's to be thanked

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Speaker 1: for that. Of course, for many of us this isn't news.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Gates is but one of a rowing group,

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Speaker 1: whether driven by the right reasons or not, who have

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Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that the climate obsession has gone

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Speaker 1: too far and is now damaging rather than fixing. The

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Speaker 1: difference here the importance of this is that Gates is

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Speaker 1: one of them, one of the disciples, one of the believers, until,

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Speaker 1: of course, he's decided he isn't. He is the best

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Speaker 1: sort of skeptic, a well reasoned, highly studied, and partial observer,

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Speaker 1: brought to the conclusion by the work. He's not a bandwagoner,

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Speaker 1: He's not an obsessive. He's an observer. He used his

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Speaker 1: wealth from a success to investigate the planet's big issues,

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Speaker 1: and he's decided climate change can go down the pecking order.

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Speaker 1: God bless him for that. The trick, though, the important bit.

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Speaker 1: Can those immersed get what he's saying? Can they dare

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Speaker 1: to believe? It? May all need a bit of raining

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Speaker 1: in or in their eyes as Gates merely a deluded traitor.

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Speaker 1: And if they can't, but we do, how much further

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Speaker 1: is the obsessive reputation damaged as more and more of

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Speaker 1: the world sides with Gates and not the nutters. For

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