Bill Gates: Innovation and Awareness Needed to Tackle Climate Crisis

Bill Gates, a major donor to climate change causes, dismissed the idea of planting trees as a solution to the climate crisis, calling it "complete nonsense." Gates emphasized his support for technology-driven approaches, such as carbon capture, and highlighted his investment in clean energy startups. He argued for the importance of innovation in government-driven climate initiatives, stating that without it, brute-force approaches like high carbon taxes would be unlikely to succeed. Climate scientists have found that planting trees alone would have a minimal impact on halting global warming.