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Re:The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates ... by gentleman11 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:04AM (#27286931)
> He is also preoccupied with controlling Africa’s population through family planning, fearing a population boom

Those countries are modernizing rapidly, which is leading to rapid and massive increases in energy use and co2 emissions. I had a professor in a lecture once explain how dangerous and complicated a problem this was going to be in this century. Hand waving Gates for this is immature

Edit: the suggested fix is to educate women iirc. Educated empowered women have the freedom to choose lives that don’t involve having as many babies as possible, and an educated population is better able to deal with the technological and social challenges surrounding energy and climate

Re:The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates ... by coldtea on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:19AM (#27287029)
The idea that an outside to those sovereign countries should have any say on their population, especially a person whose country is the #1 (or #2 now that it has delegated manufacturing to China) polluter in the world, and absent from many global agreements, is beyond insulting and colonial-like...