Bill Gates Announces Top Priority: Zero Climate Emissions

On Friday the world's most successful businessperson and most powerful philanthropist declared that reaching zero climate emissions is his top priority. We were particularly happy to hear that Bill Gates spoke about his commitment to using his massive philanthropic resources (the Gates Foundation is the world's largest) to make life better for people through public health and poverty alleviation ("vaccines and seeds" as he put it). Then he said something he's never said before:

that is it because he's committed to improving life for the world's most vulnerable people that he now believes that climate change is the most important challenge on the planet.

Check out Alex Steffen's summary for more details.