Bill Gates Is Not Expecting You To Give Up Meat, Even Though The Planet Could Benefit From It — Here's Why
Bill Gates Is Not Expecting You To Give Up Meat, Even Though The Planet Could Benefit From It — Here's Why
In a lecture given last week at the fifth Ramnath Goenka Lecture in India, former Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates said that campaigning for individual changes in lifestyle such as reducing meat consumption won't have a big impact on limiting climate change.
在上週在印度舉行的第五屆拉姆納特·戈恩卡講座上舉行的演講中，前微軟首席執行官兼慈善家 比尔·盖茨 表示，針對生活方式的個人變化（例如減少肉類消費）的競選不會對限制氣候變化產生重大影響。
"Will all Indians become vegetarians? Will all Americans become vegetarians? I wouldn't want to count on it. Anybody wants to evangelize that they're welcome to, I don't resist in any way," said Gates in conversation to Anant Goenka.
「所有印第安人都會成為素食主義者嗎？所有美國人都會成為素食者嗎？我不想指望它。任何人都想傳福音，他們是受歡迎的，我不會以任何方式抗拒，」蓋茨在與 Anant Goenka 交談中說。
The comment can have an impact on alternative meat companies, including Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND). The company has been struggling to stay afloat recently, with some commentators saying that 2023 will be its "make or break" year.
該評論可能會對替代肉類公司產生影響，包括 超越肉類公司。(納斯達克:由).該公司最近一直在努力保持漂浮狀態，一些評論員說 2023 年將是其「賺取或破產」的一年。
Beyond Meat beat analyst estimates after its last quarterly call, but still delivered losses.
除了肉類在最後一個季度通話後擊敗了分析師的估計，但仍然造成了損失。
In a January "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit, Gates said that being vegan "is great," but he doesn't think "most people will do that."
蓋茨在一月份的 Reddit 上的「問我任何事情」會議上說，素食主義者「很棒」，但他不認為「大多數人都會這樣做」。
There are companies making "beef" in new ways while others are working to still use cows but reduce the methane emissions, he told Reddit users.
他告訴 Reddit 用戶，有些公司以新的方式製作「牛肉」，而其他公司正在努力仍在使用奶牛，但減少甲烷排放量。
"I have backed a number of innovators in this space including Beyond and Impossible and Memphis. I think eventually these products will be very good even though their share is small today," Gates wrote.
「我支持了這個領域的許多創新者，包括「超越」和「不可能」和「孟菲斯」。我認為這些產品最終將是非常好的，即使他們今天的份額很小,「蓋茨寫道.
The former tech magnate is not putting into question the massive impact of meat production in greenhouse gas emission. A 2021 study published in the journal Nature Food found meat production accounts for 60% of global greenhouse emissions from food production and 35% of total emissions across industries.
這位前科技巨頭並沒有質疑肉類生產對溫室氣體排放的巨大影響。2021 年發表在《自然食品》雜誌上的一項研究發現，肉類生產佔食品生產的全球溫室排放量的 60％ 和各行業總排放量的 35％。
"Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods," read the study.
「動物性食品的全球溫室氣體排放量是植物性食品的兩倍，」閱讀該研究。
In Gates' view, trying to convince people to limit their consumption of energy-intensive products won't make that much of a difference. The solution must come from technology, innovation and political support.
蓋茨認為，試圖說服人們限制能源密集型產品的消耗並不會有太大的區別。解決方案必須來自科技、創新和政治支持。
Participating in Bloomberg's Zero podcast last October, Gates shared similar remarks, saying he doesn't think "it's realistic to say that people are utterly going to change their lifestyle because of concerns about climate."
去年 10 月參加彭博社的 Zero 播客，蓋茨分享了類似的言論，稱他不認為「由於對氣候的擔憂，人們完全會改變他們的生活方式是現實的。」
"Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we'll just basically change human desires, I think that that's too difficult," he told host Akshat Rathi.
他告訴主持人 Akshat Rathi：「任何人說我們會告訴人們停止吃肉或停止想擁有一個漂亮的房子，我們只會基本上改變人類的慾望，我認為這太困難了。」
"You can make a case for it. But I don't think it's realistic for that to play an absolutely central role," he added.
「你可以為它做一個案例。但我認為發揮絕對核心的作用並不現實，」他補充說。
In his lecture in India, Gates recovered that motif. Asking people to "live an impoverished lifestyle" can't be a solution to climate change, he said.
在他在印度的演講中，蓋茨恢復了這個主題。他說，要求人們「過著貧困的生活方式」不能成為氣候變化的解決方案。
"In the U.S. we could use half as much energy per person, but if we said to India to stay at your current level, that would be completely unjust," said Gates.
蓋茨說：「在美國，我們每人可以使用一半的能量，但是如果我們向印度說要保持您當前的水平，那將是完全不公正的。」
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