What relationship can exist between Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, and McDonald’s fries ? Throughout 2020, the American tycoon made headlines for his continuous predictions about the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic. Now he is topical again for being the largest owner of agricultural land in the United States. According to the magazine ‘The Land Report’, it has almost 100,000 hectares of land spread over 18 states, more than the total area of New York, according to ‘NBC’.
Well, all kinds of vegetables are grown on Bill Gates’ land, including McDonald’s French fries. According to data from ‘The Land Report’ and ‘NBC, the properties of the Microsoft co-founder vary from 28,000 hectares in Louisiana , where farmers grow rice, corn, cotton and soybeans, to 8,000 hectares in Nebraska, where their lands are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans.
In Washington, Bill Gates owns more than 5,600 hectares of farmland, including several potato fields so large they can even be seen from space. Well, this is where McDonald’s potatoes come from, one of the most important and well-known fast food chains in the world.
Bill Gates wants to save the Earth from global warming
The American tycoon has spoken about this issue in several interviews and has assured that he has much broader plans to save planet Earth . All the farming techniques used on your own land can go a long way in reducing deforestation. In addition, the spokesperson for one of its companies, Cascade Investments, has indicated that all agricultural areas are part of a sustainability program.
Climate change is not a problem of the future, but a reality that we are all witnessing today. The co-founder of Microsoft has a project underway that researchers at Harvard University are carrying out to reduce the temperature of the Earth.
The project has been dubbed the “Controlled Stratospheric Disturbance Experiment (SCoPEx)” and, according to ‘The Times’ magazine, what it proposes is to launch a balloon 20 kilometers high. The balloon will launch aerosols of calcium carbonate to divert some of the Sun’s energy out of the Earth’s atmosphere.
This June the first test will be carried out in Sweden to check the handling of the balloon.
