In July 2020, I came across the following clip here (1min38sec-3min33sec into the show).
However, I was not successful in my attempts at trying to find the clip on the YT channel of the Bill and Gates Foundation because I did not know what the title for the clip was. After stumbling across a screenshot yesterday evening showing the title for the clip as well as a YT ‘thumbnail’ on page 5 of the essay Coronavirus, vaccines and the Great Reset, I only had to type "Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation?" and Bill Gates in the search box of my favourite search engine to be able to retrieve the YT URL for the clip.
This clip was uploaded on the YT channel of Mr Bill Gates on 13th February 2018 – thus two years before the pandemic and more than three before the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates.
* The fabulous returns of Mr Bill Gates on his investments in vaccines (source) but the clip appears to have been posted first early in December of last year, on YT as well as on BitChute.
[Click on the picture with the right button of your mouse, then on ‘picture-in-picture’ in the menu and finally place your cursor on the picture at the bottom of the screen to display the ‘Play’ icon [i.e. the white arrow pointing towards the right] to start the clip, which will thus play in ‘picture-in-picture’ mode. If it does not, click here.
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TRANSCRIPT
In this year’s Annual
Letter, Melinda and I take the toughest questions we get asked
and give our answers.
One that’s come up for a long time is, as we make the world healthier, is the population going to get so big that feeding everybody and maintaining the environment is going to be impossible.
Here we can see a chart that looks at the total world population over the last several hundred years.
And at first glance, this is a bit scary.
We go from less than a billion in 1800, and then 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.4 billion where we are today is happening even faster.
So Melinda and I wondered whether providing [he pauses for a fraction of a second and displays a self-satisfied smirk hardly noticeable unless one watches the clip at least twice] new medicines and keeping children alive would that create more of a population problem?
What we found out is that, as health improves, families choose to have less children and this effect is very, very dramatic [I do not know whether it is me, but Bill Gates gave me the impression of having almost strangled himself when he pronounced ‘very’ for the first time].
We find that in every country of the world, this is repeated: the population growth goes down as we improve health.
So we’ve taken that chart that shows the global population growth and we’ve actually extended it out all the way to 2100.
And we can see that instead of continuing, it actually flattens out [to my eyes, first it falls precipitously, then it flattens; however, I guess this is what the phrasal verb ‘to flatten out’ means in American English].
Another way to see that is through this rate of population growth.
And you can see that in the 60s that reached a pretty high number, over 2% per year, and it’s now come way, way down.
Now, 11 billion people is still a lot, but the good news is that the faster we improve health, the faster family size goes down.
And so, we can feel great [he chuckles, there is no doubt about that; if there is for you, please play the clip again] about saving those lives.
One that’s come up for a long time is, as we make the world healthier, is the population going to get so big that feeding everybody and maintaining the environment is going to be impossible.
Here we can see a chart that looks at the total world population over the last several hundred years.
And at first glance, this is a bit scary.
We go from less than a billion in 1800, and then 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.4 billion where we are today is happening even faster.
So Melinda and I wondered whether providing [he pauses for a fraction of a second and displays a self-satisfied smirk hardly noticeable unless one watches the clip at least twice] new medicines and keeping children alive would that create more of a population problem?
What we found out is that, as health improves, families choose to have less children and this effect is very, very dramatic [I do not know whether it is me, but Bill Gates gave me the impression of having almost strangled himself when he pronounced ‘very’ for the first time].
We find that in every country of the world, this is repeated: the population growth goes down as we improve health.
So we’ve taken that chart that shows the global population growth and we’ve actually extended it out all the way to 2100.
And we can see that instead of continuing, it actually flattens out [to my eyes, first it falls precipitously, then it flattens; however, I guess this is what the phrasal verb ‘to flatten out’ means in American English].
Another way to see that is through this rate of population growth.
And you can see that in the 60s that reached a pretty high number, over 2% per year, and it’s now come way, way down.
Now, 11 billion people is still a lot, but the good news is that the faster we improve health, the faster family size goes down.
And so, we can feel great [he chuckles, there is no doubt about that; if there is for you, please play the clip again] about saving those lives.
Lausanne, the lines above were posted on the fourteenth day of the seventh month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
