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🌍 What Bill Gates Gets Right About Climate (and Why It Sounds Familiar)

The smartest climate strategy looks a lot like a weather strategy: actionable, measurable, and focused on what can be done today.

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Paul Walsh
Oct 31, 2025
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💡 The next era of progress won’t be ideological. It will be operational.

Back in January, I wrote The First Rule of Climate Change Communication: Don’t Talk About Climate Change.

My argument?

Business leaders should stop framing the problem as “climate” and start managing it as weather: a set of operational and financial risks that can be acted on today.

Earlier this week, Bill Gates published his own version of that thesis: Three Tough Truths About Climate.

Different language, same conclusion — the problem isn’t prediction, it’s application.

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