US EditionBill Gates Sees the World Is Going 'Backwards' and Gives 5-Year Deadline Before We Enter a New Dark Age
Cuts in foreign aid from rich countries raised global child deaths under age five from 4.6 million to 4.8 million in 2025, Gates said, urging restoration of funding.
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Bill Gates: World 'Went Backwards' in One Big Way
Bill Gates thinks the world just flunked a basic test of progress. In his annual letter, the Microsoft co-founder notes that global child mortality rose in 2025 for the first time this century, and he links that reversal directly to reduced aid from wealthy nations. Deaths of children under 5...
Bill Gates sees the world is going 'backwards' and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age
"I believe that, within the next decade, we will not only get the world back on track but enter a new era of unprecedented progress," Gates wrote in his annual letter.
Bill Gates in New Memo: ‘I Am Still an Optimist’
Current conditions: Nearly all of Australia is under a heat warning as wildfires continue to burn • 65,000 properties in the United Kingdom lose power due to Storm Goretti • Two tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma on Thursday, the first in the U.S. in 2026. THE TOP FIVE1. Bill Gates: ‘I am still an optimist’After writing a memo last year that shook up the climate community with its call for a pragmatic “pivot,” Microsoft founder and philanthropist…
Bill Gates warns that humanity is in danger of "going backwards" and sets a five-year deadline to avoid a new dark age.
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