{"id":970224,"date":"2025-10-29T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970224"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:33:17","slug":"microsoft-founder-bill-gates-on-climate-strategy-says-he-is-willing-to-let-the-temperature-go-up-0-1-degree-to-get-rid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/29\/microsoft-founder-bill-gates-on-climate-strategy-says-he-is-willing-to-let-the-temperature-go-up-0-1-degree-to-get-rid-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft founder Bill Gates on climate strategy, says he is willing to \u2018let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates recently said that if given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, he will choose the latter option. In a memo released today, October 28, Gates said that the world\u2019s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, specifically in the world\u2019s poorest countries. \u201cI\u2019ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don\u2019t understand the suffering that exists today,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Gates emphasized that climate change is a serious problem. However, it alone won\u2019t be the end of civilization adding that scientific innovation may likely curb it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates recently said that if given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, he will choose the latter option. In a memo released today, October 28, Gates said that the world\u2019s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, specifically in the world\u2019s poorest countries. \u201cI\u2019ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don\u2019t understand the suffering that exists today,\u201d he told reporters. Gates emphasized that climate change is a serious problem. However, it alone won\u2019t be the end of civilization adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}