He’s the idiot! You learn in grade school about the benefits of plant life

Interviewer: "Some people would even say that if you just planted enough trees, it could take care of the climate issue altogether."

Bill Gates: "And that's complete nonsense."

"I mean, are we the science people, or are we the idiots? Which one do we want to be?"

Even if you assume that CO2 is somehow a "pollutant" that needs to be sucked out of the air (it's not, and it doesn't), you'd think trees—which suck CO2 out of the air for free—would make the ideal candidate. But no, apparently we need to impoverish ourselves into squalor building hideous, expensive and totally unnecessary carbon capture technology, attempting to solve a non-existent problem.