Did Bill Gates Just Give the Most Important Climate Speech of the Year?

By Alex Steffen, Worldchanging
Posted on February 16, 2010, Printed on February 17, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/145694/

When we talk about zero climate emissions, we sound crazy. When Bill Gates does it, bankers pick up the phone.

On Friday, the world's most successful businessperson and most powerful philanthropist did something outstandingly bold, that went almost unremarked: Bill Gates announced that his top priority is getting the world to zero climate emissions.

Now, I'm not a member of the Cult of Bill myself (I'm typing this on a MacBook), but you don't have to believe that Gates has superhuman powers of prediction to know that his predictions have enormous power. People who will never listen to Al Gore, much to less someone like me, hang on Gates' every utterance.