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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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100/100Author:
Bill Gates
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Date:
February 16, 2021
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical and accessible plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
What The Reviewers Say
... a compelling explanation of how the world can stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions effectively to zero.
This new volume could not be more timely — it emerges after a year that saw the costliest slew of weather disasters in history, and that despite a cooling La Niña current in the Pacific managed to set the mark for record global temperature.
... this is a surprisingly good read. The author’s enthusiasm and curiosity about the way things work is infectious. He walks us through not just the basic science of global warming, but all the ways that our modern lives contribute to it. 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.
Gates has crafted a calm, reasoned, well-sourced explanation of the greatest challenge of our time and what we must change to avoid cooking our planet.
