‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic | Bill Gates | The Guardian

"I wrote a memo when I put the extra $20bn into the foundation, saying 'I'm not doing this because the near term looks super-rosy', and that's true, I'm doing it because these are important issues and in the long run I still am an optimist, that the war will end, the innovation pipeline and the kind of progress we saw until the pandemic in reducing malnutrition, reducing child death and getting digital bank accounts for women, will return. We were making progress and we can again.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/the-strain-is-the-worst-of-my-lifetime-how-bill-gates-is-staying-optimistic