Bill Gates

Bill Gates' Opinions

Spam Will the problem of spam be solved by 2006? Agree Two years from now, spam will be solved. Edit Pitches 24 Jan 2004    Source Economics Is development aid to Africa effective? Mostly Agree Governments and nonprofit groups have an irreplaceable role in helping [developing countries], but it will take too long if they try to do it alone. It is mainly corporations that have the skills to make technological innovations work for the poor. To make the most of those skills, we need a more creative capitalism: an attempt to stretch the reach of market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off. Edit Pitches 31 Jul 2008    Source Are biofuels good? Agree [Bill Gates is betting that algae will provide the answer to our future fuel needs by investing in Sapphire Energy.] Edit Pitches 23 Sep 2008    Source Philosophy Is trying to "change the world" foolish? Disagree I'm optimistic. I think people are beginning to recognize how important this is, and it really can make a difference for millions of lives, if we get it right. ... You know, the system doesn't naturally make it happen. Governments don't naturally pick these things in the right way. The private sector doesn't naturally put its resources into these things. So it's going to take brilliant people like you to study these things, get other people involved... Edit Pitches 01 Feb 2009    Source Health Are we prepared for a pandemic? Disagree But the real story isn’t how bad H1N1 was. The real story is that we are lucky it wasn’t worse because we were almost completely unprepared for it. ... Hopefully this outbreak will serve as a wakeup call to get us to invest in better capabilities, because more epidemics will come in the decades ahead and there is no guarantee we will be lucky next time. The 1918 flu killed more than 50 million people. The Wake Up Pitch   Edit Pitches 18 Jan 2010    Source Do the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks? Agree Providing greater access to existing vaccines and making new vaccines available quickly could save 8 million lives by 2020. ... I’ve given kids the polio vaccine myself – it’s just a couple drops in the mouth. It’s quite magical knowing you are helping prevent a terrible, disfiguring disease. As a parent, I have a choice to provide my children with something that has the potential to prevent illness or even death. I want parents everywhere to have that same chance. The Family Pitch   Edit Pitches 09 Feb 2010    Source

Nuclear Energy Should the world embrace nuclear energy? Agree [Nuclear energy is a] hard path but it's a path that is more fruitful than most people think because innovation stopped in the 1970s. It's the only thing we have today other than hydrocarbons that provides a lot of power and you could build a lot more of it. Edit Pitches 21 Jan 2010    Source Is nuclear energy safe enough to justify its use? Agree If you compare it to the amount that coal has killed per kilowatt hour [nuclear] is way, way less. When an accident does occur, however, its effects are much more visible. Coal kills fewer people at one time, which is highly preferred by politicians. Edit Pitches 03 May 2011    Source Energy Will solar be the biggest energy source of the future? Mostly Disagree ...renewable sources... have some disadvantages. ... The density of energy gathered in these technologies is dramatically less than a power plant... ...they are also intermittent sources... ...we have transmission challenges... ...there's this storage problem... ... if you're counting on it for a 100% you need an incredible miracle battery... ...this shows up when you try to get the intermittent source to be above 20% to 30% of what you're using [as a ratio of total energy usage]. Edit Pitches 01 Feb 2010    Source Science Do negative feedback loops mostly cushion the effect of atmospheric CO2 increases? Disagree The [skeptics] who make scientific arguments are very few. [They say things such as] there are negative feedbacks effect to do with clouds that offset things... there are very few things that they can even say there's a chance in a million [of being true]. The Marginalizing Pitch   Edit Pitches 01 Feb 2010    Source

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