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A review by lxu213
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
4.0
As someone who was concerned enough about climate change even as a kid to announce on stage "I must visit Antarctica before it melts!" and as a young adult to make it her career (and then to become deeply disillusioned about the hopelessness of it all), I will say that this book gave me a small, tiny kernel of hope. Although the path ahead is difficult and honestly, seemingly impossible, it's not 100% impossible and this book helps to present a clear path to how we can avoid the catastrophe that I have always felt sure would happen.
Gates takes an overwhelming complex problem and tackles it in an understandable and readable way. I appreciated the way he reframes the climate question, e.g., when presented with a possible solution, how much of the 51B tons of greenhouse gases will it remove? There's a lot of criticism for this book and for the fact that Gates wrote it, but I think presenting this argument in terms of capital (how much more will we pay for the "green premiums"?) and in terms of national self interest (this is not "charity") is critical for reaching a wider audience and making a more realistic plan for how we can get to zero by 2050. Also, this is one of the biggest problems facing us humans, the Earth, and everything else that lives on it that we're killing off, so if more folks throw in their two-cents on how we can get to zero and reach new audiences, I'm all for it!
Gates is a billionaire... who cares? In 500 million years, after we've destroyed the Earth and initiated a mass extinction and rats end up surviving to evolve into the next intelligent creature, who will care then??
Gates takes an overwhelming complex problem and tackles it in an understandable and readable way. I appreciated the way he reframes the climate question, e.g., when presented with a possible solution, how much of the 51B tons of greenhouse gases will it remove? There's a lot of criticism for this book and for the fact that Gates wrote it, but I think presenting this argument in terms of capital (how much more will we pay for the "green premiums"?) and in terms of national self interest (this is not "charity") is critical for reaching a wider audience and making a more realistic plan for how we can get to zero by 2050. Also, this is one of the biggest problems facing us humans, the Earth, and everything else that lives on it that we're killing off, so if more folks throw in their two-cents on how we can get to zero and reach new audiences, I'm all for it!
Gates is a billionaire... who cares? In 500 million years, after we've destroyed the Earth and initiated a mass extinction and rats end up surviving to evolve into the next intelligent creature, who will care then??