Bill Gates urges donors to give to efforts aimed at eliminating disease, hunger, not climate change

Billionaire Bill Gates on Tuesday published an essay where he urged philanthropists to donate to causes that aim at ending disease and hunger instead of climate change.

Gates, who has been a major supporter of reducing carbon emissions, said climate change will not wipe out the human race and that past efforts to reduce carbon emissions have made significant progress. However, he said past efforts to invest in climate change had been misplaced.

“Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems. We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause," Gates wrote. “Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise. 

"This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives," he continued. "Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”

Gates said philanthropists still need to continue the fight against climate change but that there were more pressing issues that need to be addressed after the Trump administration made significant funding cuts to USAID.

The essay comes ahead of the global COP30 summit next month in Brazil, which is focused on battling climate change.

 Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.