Smart Explainer: Climate Change
This is possibly the prettiest, most whimsically pedagogical explainer video I have ever seen. It brings forth and unpacks unskewed and uncontestable arguments in a beautiful way that only flat-earth devotees can deny. Crafted by a Munich based animation studio, the project was funded by the Gates Foundation.
I’m not a huge fan of Bill Gates, on the contrary, I think he’s been a terrible actor in the computer space, morally and aesthetically. He’s certainly compensated some of his past wrongdoings with admirably charitable activities. But I will never trust the guy to not have hidden motives behind everything he does. One could argue (conspiratorily) that the work of the Gates Foundation is part of Bill’s immortalization strategy. But I agree with Gates on one central point: that Trump is bad for the planet. The enemy of my enemy is my friend…