Politics
The billionaire philanthropist has been quietly buying up farmland all over the country. Should we be concerned?
Now, though, as recent reports
show, Gates’s obsession with the purchasing and cultivation of farmland appears to be a little clearer. The billionaire has always wanted a Nobel Peace Prize, desperately so, and what better way to secure this coveted award than by ridding the world of hunger (even if large numbers of people must suffer)? Interestingly, Gates is not only the most prominent landlord in the world, he now
controls the world’s seed supply.
Literally. Feed more mouths, garner more praise, and cement your legacy.
Lie,
steal,
cheat—all’s fair when it comes to one’s legacy of greatness.
In writing this article, I also reached out to Vandana Shiva, an Indian scholar and vocal critic of Bill Gates, for comment on the matter. When asked why she thought the tycoon was acquiring so much land, Shiva responded, “both because land (like biodiversity) has been reduced to an asset in the billionaire’s portfolio and because it allows him to shape the future of agriculture as ‘digital agriculture’ (farming without farmers).” Shiva believes that Gates is laying “the ground for the new ‘fake green’ economy based on pseudo solutions to climate change. This includes ‘net zero,’ in which the polluters continue to pollute and also grab the land” from the less well-off.
Shiva is worried that “fake science” is joining with “fake accounting” to create “an empire in which all resources, including land, belong to the billionaires.”
In a nutshell, as the World Economic Forum (WEF)
warns us, very soon, “you will own nothing.” Considering Bill Gates is a WEF
agenda contributor, one needn’t be a wacky conspiracy theorist to question his motives.