Former U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, in conversation with Christian Amanpour.
“It’s very understandable that Bill Gates, who is a friend, thinks in binary terms because all of the computing world is based on binary thinking, ones and zeros. That is the basis of computing. So it’s very understandable that he does this binary thinking and binary analysis. However, the real world is not binary.
“The real world is actually interconnected and so there is no use in us exclusively dealing with health, with poverty if we don’t also protect people against the ravages of climate change. And sadly for him, he published this memo exactly in the time in which Melissa hit Jamaica.
“And so the question, you know, is let’s ask the Jamaicans whether even if they had had perfect health and perfect quality of life, would that have protected them against Melissa?
“The answer is no. We have to do both.”