{"id":119380,"date":"2025-11-05T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119380\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:19:16","slug":"bill-gates-is-wrong-to-quiet-quit-the-climate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119380\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Is Wrong to Quiet-Quit the Climate Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A few years ago, there was a big frenzy about \u201cquiet quitting,\u201d the idea that kids these days might show up to their jobs but not work very hard at them. Bill Gates seems to be quiet-quitting the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The billionaire Microsoft Corp. founder has long led the charge to keep the planet from overheating, dedicating money and attention to the cause and helping make real change possible. He says he\u2019s still in it. But his heart no longer appears to be. Worse, he\u2019s giving ammunition to those fighting against further progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few years ago, there was a big frenzy about \u201cquiet quitting,\u201d the idea that kids these days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,1392,390,34949,25833,273,29284,232,5741,11292,111,139,69,6943,147,9880],"class_list":{"0":"post-119380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-clean-energy","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-developing-countries","12":"tag-economic-growth","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-microsoft-corp","17":"tag-mobile-phones","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-paris","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}