The Issue: Bill Gates suggesting we should prioritize improving human life over reducing carbon emissions. Focusing on reducing human suffering rather than greenhouse emissions, as Bill Gates suggests, is not a denial of climate change. It’s an acknowledgement that helping sick children is more emotionally fulfilling than agonizing over statistics ( “Gates turns up the heat,” Bjorn Lomberg, Nov. 1). Lomberg’s unhelpful analysis frames these two approaches as mutually exclusive, but we can and