Bill Gates. In The Atlantic.

• “We need an energy miracle.”
• “Bill Gates versus global warming.”

I gotta say, whatever you think about him, he is truly alive, and engaged. He changes his opinion when the evidence indicates it. And that is worth applauding.

And where the heck are the Apples of the world, the Googles of the world with this kind of Big Deal public commitments and statements?

Bill Gates gets it. Do they?

Say what you will, but where are the rest of you, you smug, self-important technocrats?

Update, 2016-02-24

Maybe Bill Gates doesn’t get it?

See the opinions of Peter Sinclair and Joe Romm.