Bill Gates says it’d be ‘very, very easy’ to solve the Covid pandemic compared to climate change crisis
BILL Gates has claimed it'd be "very easy" to solve the Covid pandemic when compared to the global climate change crisis.
The 65-year-old Microsoft co-founder revealed he isn't too worried about combating the prior to the release of his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
"But, compared to – that's very, very easy.
"Sadly, climate change will cause far more deaths – over five times as many per year by the end of the century – but it requires innovation across the entire physical economy."
Changes would need to be made in steel plants, cement plants, electricity, transport system, and more, Gates noted.
During a 2015 TedTalk, Gates warned that civilization was ill-prepared for a deadly epidemic.
He said the disaster would involve a virus "where people feel well enough while they’re infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market."
The billionaire's comments came five years before the coronavirus pandemic which has now killed 2.4million people worldwide.
Gates, who with his wife Melinda runs the Gates Foundation, which helps to eradicate infectious diseases around the world, also offered his take on the major threats faced by the world today.
"One is climate change. Every year that would be a death toll even greater than we have had in this pandemic," Gates said.
He added: "Bio-terrorism. Somebody who wants to cause damage could engineer a virus and that means the cost, the chance of running into this is more than the naturally-caused epidemics like the current one."
A few days ago, and said she didn't get her father's implant when she got the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Jennifer Gates, 24, took to Instagram to fight back conspiracy theorists and advocate for anyone eligible to get the vaccine, saying the first dose "sadly did NOT implant my genius father into my brain."
Her caption followed accusations that the Covid-19 vaccine contains implants that allows Bill Gates to track people's movements.