Was Innovation to zero merely about reducing pollution?

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Is the TedX lecture "Innovation to zero" simply about reducing pollution?

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  3. I sure do hope so?????!!!!!

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  4. I sure do hope not... because we humans are destroying the environment!!!!!

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  1. DennisTate

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    http://www.politicalforum.com/index...ing-student-loan-debt.603225/#post-1073696552


    Was the TedX lecture entitled "Innovation to zero" merely about reducing pollution?

    I personally think that evidence is coming out now that essentially proves that Mr. Bill Gates is rather rabidly Neo - Malthusian and he may sincerely believe that only by reducing the world's population can the Ecology and the Environment be saved.

    Frankly..... I admit that this is NOT A STUPID THEORY..... only an idiot could think that human productivity is only positive and could not be used to destroy the environment!!!!





    Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates
     
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  2. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I admit that Thomas Robert Malthus was NOT a stupid man.....
    he was an Anglican priest and he had a pretty good understanding of how we human being can be astonishingly productive. Even during his time period he saw that the Industrial Revolution was going to do a lot of damage to the environment BUT his view of human productive capability was extremely PESSIMISTIC and he saw very little hope for the possibility that we human being could become productive in positive ways that would even benefit the environment around us.

    As his theory developed over the last two centuries Neo - Malthusian thought connected his Malthusian Catastrophe Theory with our human tendency to damage the environment...... Bill Gates is in a sense the leading proponent of Malthusianism at this time and he was NOT talking simply about avoiding pollution. He was advocating widespread use of abortions, sterilization and the reduction of the world population.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

    Because he was an Anglican priest Thomas Malthus understood that this statement in Genesis was arguably the most brilliant statement on human productive capability that has ever been written!

    "And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
    And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." (Genesis 11)

    Thomas Malthus was seeing technology increasing rapidly partly due to the greater domination of the English language in many nations.

    Ecclesiastes 10:19
    "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. "

    I also believe that Thomas Malthus caught onto the power of money to cause economic activity and productivity to increase and increase and increase.
     
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    To at least some degree.. I believe that Thomas Malthus was an apologist for the abuses of the British Empire all over the world... including how England had handled events in America. His idea that population needed to be kept low and agricultural production NOT maximized..... makes me wonder to what degree the present administrations in the United States and Canada are MALTHUSIAN?????

    The way that our governments handled the pandemic smacks of Malthusianism being perhaps more influential in our governments than we might tend to imagine?????

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html

    Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic
    With restaurants, hotels and schools closed, many of the nation’s largest farms are destroying millions of pounds of fresh goods that they can no longer sell.


     
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    Just as many British people had sympathy for Adolf Hitler before WWII so also many influential Americans seem to
    be at least partly in agreement with the policy of England against America as occurred from 1751 to 1783.

    Many Americans seem to want a Bear Market and perhaps their motive may be that they think that dampening the economy may be the best way to save the environment, and decrease pollution?!??


     
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    I think you have it a little turned around but are in the ballpark. We, myself, included, believe that we need to reduce consumption to help with the environment and pollution and to protect wildlife habitat. In a consumption based economy that will have negative effects on the market. The market fluctuations themselves do not generally have a big effect on day to day consumption though (which is why I think you have it backwards).
     
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    I thought Billy Gates was the debil incarnate?
     
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    Anyone who truly believes there's too many people needs to be a part of the solution and lead by example. Anything less is just elitism.

    Bill Gates, for example, not only continues to spew carbon out of his carbon hole, but he has three children as well. So clearly he doesn't think theres too many humans, he just thinks there's too many humans that arent Bill Gates.

    F Bill Gates and everyone like him.
     
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    This is the fundamental conceit of the "global warming/global cooling/climare change" fraud. No, CO2 doesn't drive it and it's not by any rational definition a "pollutant". An improving world for everyone is driven by the ability to produce affordable energy which requires producing CO2. There are no other options currently available to do that at scale other than fossil fuels. Period. There is no other rational choice.

    Whine about what everyone else (admit it, you aren't personally doing squat about it) needs to do to stop climate change, but in the end there isn't a problem and there's really no solution to that mythical problem that's going to be available any time soon.

    And forcing it will kill people. Lots of them. No matter what Bill Gates thinks.
     
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    I have to plead guilty to being biased against the Al Gore theory from the very beginning......
    New Mexico biologist Carl Cantrell and I actually put in two submissions for The Virgin Earth Challenge based on our alternative theory of turning deserts green...... through mega-scale desalination of sea water.

    My two somewhat humorous submissions for $25 million Virgin Earth Challenge.

    The Sahara Desert is extremely hot in the afternoons but surprisingly chilly by the following morning so where did all that heat go??????

    Into the atmosphere!!!!!!!

    So....... this certainly tends to back up the logic of Mr. Carl Cantrell's theory!!!!
     
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    I do think that Bill Gates has been a very, truly bad boy......... and is very much in the mind set of elitist British thinkers from several centuries ago.

    He does do a good job of acting like he is on the side of Al Gore and political correctness though.... but in my opinion that is very opportunistic of him.
     
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    But not the debil incarnate then? :)
     
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    Pretty close........ but his gambit is going to fail and what I suspect may have happened in another time line will not happen during Bill Gates' economic reign of terror over this earth.

    A century from now our descendants that could still number in the tens of billions will NOT be looking back and thinking of Bill Gates as THE ANTI - CHRIST PERSON!

    But he does deserve credit for submitting a competent audition for the role of the anti-Christ person?!


     
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    Holy !!! Billie is a very bad boy! :D
     
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    The information that is coming out of India and Africa about what he did there will soon become public knowledge and I suspect that Billie is headed for one of those bright orange jump suits.........and he will really be unhappy as Melinda and his children likely spend his considerable fortune!
     
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