The billionaire philanthropist has made a career out of predicting what will happen in matters of computing, public health, and the environment.
Bioterrorism could wipe out 33 million people in less than a year.
In February, Bill Gates remarked at a conference in Munich, Germany that one of the biggest threats to global health is an airbone pathogen deployed by bioterrorists. It could be a synthetic smallpox virus or a super-flu that is far deadlier than normal strains.
Epidemiologists “say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10-15 years,” Gates noted. In just a year, the right bug could wipe out 33 million people. For this reason, Gates and his foundation have made widespread vaccination one of their top priorities around the world.
For this reason, Gates and his foundation have made widespread vaccination one of their top priorities around the world.
When it comes to food, Africa will become entirely self-sufficient.
In his 2015 Gates Annual Letter, Gates made the prediction that Africa’s agriculture industry will increase productivity by 50% by 2030, making the entire continent self-sufficient.
Currently, the continent imports roughly $50 billion worth of food each year, despite the fact that 70% of residents in sub-Saharan Africa are farmers.
“In the next 15 years, however, innovations in farming will erase these brutal ironies. The world has already developed better fertilizer and crops that are more productive, nutritious, and drought- and disease-resistant; with access to these and other existing technologies, African farmers could theoretically double their yields,” Gates wrote.
By 2035, there could be almost no poor countries.
In the letter, Gates defined “poverty” as the World Bank does, which is a daily budget of just $1.90. There are people in some 35 countries who fit that profile.
“Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. Countries will learn from their most productive neighbors and benefit from innovations like new vaccines, better seeds, and the digital revolution,” Bill Gates
By 2030, the world will discover a clean-energy breakthrough to power our world.
“The challenge we face is big, perhaps bigger than many people imagine. But so is the opportunity.If the world can find a source of cheap, clean energy, it will do more than halt climate change,” he wrote. “It will transform the lives of millions of the poorest families,” Bill Gates.
One of Gates’ more hopeful predictions came in 2016 when he declared that wind, solar, or some other renewable resource will power the majority of the world within the next 15 years.
Many of the poor countries he visited had no running water or electricity. At night this meant they couldn’t light or power their homes, keep businesses open, or run vital medical centers.
Source: Business Insider. Read article here.
12 May, 2017
