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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Gates says, "we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change." His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. As a technologist, he has seen first-hand how innovation can change the world. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. According to Gates, "to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This problem is urgent, and the debate is complex, but I believe we can come together to invent new carbon-zero technologies, deploy the ones we have, and ultimately avoid a climate catastrophe."
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"Microsoft cofounder turned philanthropist, is optimistic in this cogent guide to avoiding 'the worst effects of climate change.' ,.."
"This clear and reader-friendly 'how-to' book argues that it is important and do-able for the world to live with zero emissions by 2050."
"While Gates' positions and evidence can skew toward the intellectual at often granular levels, he nevertheless provides illuminating contexts for those perspectives and offers a treatise that is imperative, approachable, and useful."
"Gates makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing shelf of books that not only acknowledge climate change, but also propose viable solutions ..."
"Gates has occasionally appeared equivocal about climate and energy policies that he thought could undermine the fight against poverty and illness."
"He offers a primer on farming; transportation; food waste; and concrete, steel, and plastic manufacturing, to name some of the author's encyclopedic range of concerns ..."
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