His Shift on Climate Change Aside, Is Bill Gates Just Warming Up?
“In 2021, Random House published a book by software tycoon Bill Gates titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The message was clear: The world is heading toward a climate catastrophe if humans keep using fossil fuels. Everyone in the world had been hearing that message loud and clear for the previous two decades, and Gates, who’s been moonlighting as a climate expert for just as long, was not only one of the loudest voices to broadcast it, but someone who had put piles of money where his mouth was,” The New American reports. Now Gates says that there’s no disaster on the horizon. “Climate change is not the biggest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people in poor countries, and it won’t be in the future,” Gates announced this week on his personal blog, GatesNotes.”
Common Core
Many were up in arms about the Microsoft founder’s seeming ‘Come to Jesus moment,’ but we will remind you that in retrospect, Gates is often wrong. Case in point: Common Core, another Gates- backed project that was going to revolutionize education and on which the government spent trillions to implement. Well, “The Results Are In: Common Core is An All-Around Failure,” says the National Association of Scholars (NAS). “It will leave students ignorant not only of literature and history, but even the ability to read, write, and sum. All the emphasis on ‘skills’ is useless without rigorous standards and challenging content matter. Our students will know every way to add two plus two, and they’ll come up with a different answer each time.”
In fact, NAS “tested the first three years of schoolchildren entirely educated by the Common Core—and their test scores have fallen steadily.” “Even Bill Gates Tacitly Admits His Common Core Experiment Was A Failure,” says The Federalist. At a cost of $4T to taxpayers, what to speak of the price students paid.
