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How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Bill Gates.

by Gates, Bill, 1955-

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Alfred A. Knopf, c2021.

363.73874 G259h

Global warming -- Prevention -- Technological innovations.

Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects.

Climatic changes -- Prevention.

Environmental policy.

9780735280441 (hc.)

257 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about the climate crisis and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst of it. 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 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 deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. He says, "To prevent the worst effects, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. The problem is urgent, and the debate in 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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