Last week, Bill Gates published a 5,600-word essay, “A New Approach For the World’s Climate Strategy,” in which he declared that the “doomsday view of climate change” — Gates’ words, not mine — is “wrong.” He continued, saying that the doomsday outlook and claims that “cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization” are misplaced because people will “be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.” Then, the kill shot: Gates said climate activists are putting too much focus “on near-term emissions goals” and that effort is “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.” Thus, Gates is saying that McKibben’s catastrophist narrative about climate change — the narrative McKibben has been peddling for decades — should be discarded, and that policymakers should adopt a humanist approach to energy and climate issues. For more, check out my latest Substack, "A Tale of Two Bills."