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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

  • 288 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2021
  • 15 editions

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1 About this book

"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 avoid the most dire effects 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 firsthand how innovation can change the world.

Good for readers who want: climate change, science, and business.

  • Environmental policy
  • Climatic changes
  • Environmental aspects
  • Science
  • Technology & engineering
  • Business & economics
  • Environmental engineering
  • Environmental Economics

2 About Bill Gates

Born 1955

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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