A review by parkwilk
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

3.25

Gates’ is unbelievably imaginative and optimistic about investment based technological innovation coming to save the day. Simultaneously he’s unable to extend that imagination to shifts in political landscape or human behavior. It’s both a realist perspective and deeply pissed me off. He lays out how the first 80% emission reductions will be substantially easier than getting to net zero and then feels no need to address the challenges around behavioral or political change that will be required to fully achieve net zero. short of “eat less meat” & “deregulate nuclear” & “build out grids now”. Informative but completely fails to confront some very important large questions.