Bill Gates spoke in India about the importance of innovation in addressing issues of global inequity, including climate change.
Gates reiterated that global warming is happening very slowly, which makes it much different than a fast-spreading pandemic.
Gates said rich countries are mostly responsible for the heating caused by emissions, but that lower-income and middle-income countries near the equator experience most of the damage. "It's in an incredible injustice," Gates said. "And so even though it kind of creeps up on you, we need to act now we need to act in a very big way.
Nuclear energy can be generated either by splitting up atoms, with fission, or by slamming neutrons together forming larger atoms and releasing energy, or fusion. Fusion can generate nearly unlimited clean energy without the long-lasting radioactive waste that fission creates, but it has so far proved elusive to recreate fusion, the way the sun generates energy, here on earth.
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