{"id":52935,"date":"2021-02-17T06:50:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52935"},"modified":"2021-02-17T06:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:51:34","slug":"theres-nothing-more-dangerous-to-humanity-than-rich-powerful-people-with-a-nefarious-agenda-and-a-will-to-implement-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52935","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s nothing more dangerous to humanity than rich powerful people with a nefarious agenda and a will to implement it"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Bill Gates wants \u2018rich nations\u2019 to switch to 100% SYNTHETIC beef to save the planet<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s third-richest man is shifting from preaching about pandemics to promoting his new book about climate change, urging humanity to embrace the sci-fi idea of fake meat in order to save the earth from greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday saw the publication of &#8216;How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,&#8217; the new book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In one of the interviews promoting the book, he argued for cutting down the levels of methane by getting rid of livestock and replacing it with the science-fiction trope of vat-grown meat.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef,\u201d<\/em> Gates told Technology Review in an article published Sunday. <em>\u201cYou can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they\u2019re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/515765-gates-synthetic-beef-climate\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/515765-gates-synthetic-beef-climate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates wants \u2018rich nations\u2019 to switch to 100% SYNTHETIC beef to save the planet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}