{"id":21907,"date":"2015-10-26T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21907"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:50:41","slug":"bill-gates-only-socialism-can-save-the-climate-the-private-sector-is-inept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/10\/26\/bill-gates-only-socialism-can-save-the-climate-the-private-sector-is-inept\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, \u2018The Private Sector is Inept\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>US Uncut<\/em> has the story <a href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/climate\/bill-gates-only-socialism-can-save-us-from-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, \u2018The Private Sector is Inept\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGates even tacked to the left and uttered words that few other billionaire investors would dare to say: government R&#038;D is far more effective and efficient than anything the private sector could do.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who should no better than the guy who practically single-handedly held back the progress of the world-wide computer industry so that his rigged-market capitalism could make him a rich SOB?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nChina also produces more electricity from wind power sources than every nuclear power plant in the U.S. put together. China\u2019s wind output powered 110 million homes in 2014, as its wind farms generated 16 percent more power than in 2013, and 77 gigawatts of additional wind power are currently under construction. China\u2019s energy grid is currently powered by 100 gigawatts of green energy, and aims to double green energy output to 200 gigawatts by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates wants the U.S. to be an additional green energy leader, and expresses hope that there may still be enough time for the U.S. to take green energy investment seriously, and that the public sector can be instrumental in preventing a 2-degree increase in global temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s hopeless, because it\u2019s about American innovation, American jobs, American leadership, and there are examples where this has gone very, very well,\u201d Gates said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If any Republican candidate gets elected as the next President of the USA, then I think you can kiss the position of the US as a world leader, good-bye.  Maybe it is our civic duty to do this world that favor.  Even the wife of the guy that said &#8220;the age of  big government is over&#8221; may be harmful to this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Uncut has the story Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, \u2018The Private Sector is Inept\u2019. Gates even tacked to the left and uttered words that few other billionaire investors would dare to say: government R&#038;D is far more effective and efficient than anything the private sector could do. Who should no better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21908,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907\/revisions\/21908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}