Four years after publishing a book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is singing a dramatically different tune on the environment.

In a new memo published on his blog, Gates pushed back on a “doomsday view of climate change” that “nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.”

“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he said, downplaying the deep risks scientists have warned us about for many years now. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”

It’s a “stunning” change in tone for a billionaire who has spent billions of dollars to bring awareness to the inevitable dan

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