Crazy Town

Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World"


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Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who attempts to remake the world's operating system in his own image. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. 


Sources/Links/Notes:

  • Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, 2021.
  • Alan Guebert, "Given What We Don't Know, Why Do We Act Like We Do Know?," Food and Farm File, September 25, 2022.
  • Gates Foundation, "Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10 Billion in Call for Decade of Vaccines," January 2010.
  • Bill Gates TED Talk, "The next outbreak? We're not ready," 2015.
  • Erin Banco, Ashleigh Furlong, and Lennart Pfahler, "How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight," Politico, September 14, 2022.
  • Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, October 1, 2019.
  • Timothy A. Wise "Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa," Tufts University, July 2020.
  • Anmar Frangoul, "Bill Gates on why he'll carry on using private jets and campaigning on climate change," CNBC, February 7, 2023.
  • Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy, Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth In The Time Of Collapse, October 17, 2022.

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