Khaberni - In a surprising shift in his speech, Bill Gates made a controversial statement asserting that climate change "will not lead to the extinction of humanity."
Bill Gates' provocative statement came in an open letter before the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil, where he defied common expectations by saying that climate change is not the biggest threat to humanity.
Despite acknowledging that climate change "will hit the poorest hardest," the seventy-year-old billionaire criticized what he described as "doomsday theories" saturated with pessimism.
Gates attempted to reassure the public by saying, "Humans will still be able to live and thrive in most parts of the world in the foreseeable future," in a formulation aimed at dispelling exaggerated fears of a climate-induced apocalypse.
Despite spending billions of his $122 billion fortune to combat climate change, the "Microsoft" founder now believes that world leaders should focus on other issues.
According to leading experts in existential studies, the real disaster lies in the destructive tools that humanity is developing itself. While climate change takes decades to show its full impact, a nuclear war could wipe out human civilization in just a few hours.
Dr. Reese Crailey, an expert in international relations from the University of Glasgow, warns: "These risks are not theoretical; the weapons exist, tensions between nuclear states are escalating, and accidents and miscalculations could occur at any moment."
Shocking studies reveal that even a "limited" nuclear war using only 100 nuclear warheads could release a dust cloud that blocks the sun for years, reducing global temperatures by 10 degrees Celsius, destroying the global food system, and causing a famine that could kill two billion people in just two years. Meanwhile, a full-scale nuclear war using a portion of the 12,000 nuclear weapons could be a "mass extinction event for the entire planet."
But the nightmare doesn't stop there, as rapid technological progress opens the door to another existential threat: engineered biological weapons.
With advances in artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, designing deadly viruses has become unprecedentedly feasible, increasing the risk of pandemics specifically designed for mass extermination.
As for climate change, experts see it as an amplifier of threats rather than a direct source. Its cascading effects of resource scarcity and unprecedented mass migrations increase geopolitical tensions between major powers and create the perfect environment for global conflicts to escalate. Thus, the climate shifts from being merely an environmental crisis to a catalyst for darker existential dangers.
In the end, these analyses leave us with an unsettling truth: perhaps the greatest threats to humanity are not the challenges imposed by nature, but the tools of destruction we create ourselves. This serves as a stern reminder that our most urgent responsibility is not just to address climate change but to curb the instruments of annihilation that could represent the final chapter in the story of human civilization.
