Billionaires fund development of climate vaccines for livestock
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are funding efforts to create a climate vaccine for livestock, The Gateway Pundit reported Saturday.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Gates’ climate investment fund, led a $26.5 million Series A funding round for ArkeaBio earlier this year. ArkeaBio is a Boston-based biotech startup developing a vaccine to reduce the methane emissions produced by livestock, which climate extremists say is a threat to human existence.
Earth Fund, Bezos’ climate war chest, poured $9.4 million in August into a similar project spearheaded by the Pirbright Institute and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). The initiative aims to discover how a vaccine could reduce livestock methane emissions by 30%.
Pharma industry eyes climate vaccines for humans
Human-targeted climate vaccines may also be in the works. These shots would supposedly be geared toward protecting people from pandemics caused by climate change. Researchers at Gingko Bioworks, a biotech firm also backed by Gates, have floated mRNA injections as a measure to mitigate the impact of global warming. The World Economic Forum has also expressed support for climate vaccines.
The biggest push, however, is coming from the pharmaceutical industry, as vaccine makers claim vaccines are a “critical response to the climate crisis.” In December, pharmaceutical giant GSK wrote on its website that “[i]n the face of climate change, vaccines play a crucial but underestimated role.”
AstraZeneca last year declared climate change to be a public health crisis, sparking concerns that the pharma industry may play a role in climate mandates. The declaration came two months after drugmaker Sanofi’s Executive Vice President of Vaccines Thomas Triomphe penned an article titled “Vaccine innovation is a critical response to the climate crisis.”
Climate vaccine passports?
Pharma industry chatter about climate vaccines came as the World Health Organization (WHO), which has warned of an impending climate pandemic, said it is developing global vaccine passports. If climate vaccines for people are developed, the WHO could demand that the vaccine passports display a person's climate vaccine status together with other so-called “immunizations.”
A status showing that a passport holder is not up to date on any scheduled vaccine could lead to the denial of that person's right to travel between nations or even within a nation.
In June last year, the WHO announced the launch of its “digital health partnership” with the European Commission. The joint program is said to involve the development of global vaccine passports among other “digital products to deliver better health for all.”
According to the WHO, the passport system will allow “global mobility” and protect people not only from “future health threats” but from those that are “on-going.”
“In June 2023, WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics,” announced the WHO in a statement.
The globalist organization clarified that this will likely include a global vaccine passport, much like many Western countries used during the COVID-19 pandemic:
This partnership will work to technically develop the WHO system with a staged approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitisation of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Expanding such digital solutions will be essential to deliver better health for citizens across the globe.
As a “first step”, the WHO and European Commission will “ensure that the current EU digital certificates continue to function effectively.”
