Gates is a Snake Oil Salesman. You have to be incompetent to believe him.

This falls down to either you are incompetent or not. This is grade school education. Gates is a Snake Oil Salesman

“Interviewer: "If you just planted enough trees, it could take care of the climate issue altogether."

Bill Gates: "And that's complete nonsense."

"I mean, are we the science people, or are we the idiots? Which one do we want to be?"

Even if you assume that CO2 is somehow a "pollutant" that needs to be sucked out of the air (it's not, and it doesn't), you'd think that trees—which absorb CO2 out of the air for free—would make the ideal candidate. But no, apparently we need to impoverish ourselves into oblivion constructing hideous, expensive and totally unnecessary carbon capture technology, attempting to solve an imaginary problem.”