Bill Gates speaks during a summit on climate and growth at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris. Share By The Gates memo may soon touch off a mad scramble for the cash that the donor class is still willing to contribute to climate. T he Maldive Islands used up [all their fresh drinking water in 1992](https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/the-climate-change-hysterics-may-be-wrong-but-theyre-not-sorry/) and are expected to retreat beneath the rising sea levels within the next 20 years. The Gaza Strip, already burdened by the war its terrorist government inaugurated, became [ecologically uninhabitable](https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-pineapple-farm-opens-in-gaza/) in 2020. In 1985, air pollution [halved the amount of sunlight](https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2016/04/earth-day-continuing-a-storied-tradition-of-misleading-claims-and-outrageous-predictions/#:~:text=In%20their%201970%20Earth%20Day,sunlight%20reaching%20earth%20by%20one) reaching the planet’s surface. Children stopped remembering [what snow even was](https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is/news-story/5a16c85680b7cc94f345240a727fb09d) sometime in the last decade. In 2013, the Arctic became irrevocably ice-free. The “ [world is going to end](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/) ” before this decade is out, and every last human being [will be dead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M&list=PLAmiIwFY65HvhVBlUpgv4BG_BDbSW5KOy&index=37&ab_channel=NielsvanderWolk) by the end of next ...