How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the...
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the...
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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.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.
He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions--suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.
As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
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There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero.Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year. Although the figure may go up or down a bit from year to year, it s generally increasing. This is where we are today.
Zero is what we need to aim for. To stop the warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change and these effects will be very bad humans need to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
This sounds difficult, because it will be. The world has never done anything quite this big. Every country will need to change its ways. Virtually every activity in modern life growing things, making things, getting around from place to place involves releasing greenhouse gases, and as time goes on, more people will be living this modern lifestyle. That s good, because it means their lives are getting better. Yet if nothing else changes, the world will keep producing greenhouse gases, climate change will keep getting worse, and the impact on humans will in all likelihood be catastrophic.
But if nothing else changes is a big If. I believe that things can change. We already have some of the tools we need, and as for those we don t yet have, everything I ve learned about climate and technology makes me optimistic that we can invent them, deploy them, and, if we act fast enough, avoid a climate catastrophe.
This book is about what it will take and why I think we can do it.
Two decades ago, I would never have predicted that one day I would be talking in public about climate change, much less writing a book about it. My background is in software, not climate science, and these days my full-time job is working with my wife, Melinda, at the Gates Foundation, where we are super-focused on global health, development, and U.S. education.
I came to focus on climate change in an
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indirect way through the problem of energy poverty.
In the early 2000s, when our foundation was just starting out, I began traveling to low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia so I could learn more about child mortality, HIV, and the other big problems we were working on. But my mind was not always on diseases. I would fly into major cities, look out the window, and think, Why is it so dark out there? Where are all the lights I d see if this were New York, Paris, or Beijing?
In Lagos, Nigeria, I traveled down unlit streets where people were huddling around fires they had built in old oil barrels. In remote villages, Melinda and I met women and girls who spent hours every day collecting firewood so they could cook over an open flame in their homes. We met kids who did their homework by candlelight because their homes didn t have electricity.
I learned that about a billion people didn t have reliable access to electricity and that half of them lived in sub-Saharan Africa. (The picture has improved a bit since then; today roughly 860 million people don t have electricity.) I thought about our foundation s motto Everyone deserves the chance to live a healthy and productive life and how it s hard to stay healthy if your local medical clinic can t keep vaccines cold because the refrigerators don t work. It s hard to be productive if you don t have lights to read by. And it s impossible to build an economy where everyone has job opportunities if you don t have massive amounts of reliable, affordable electricity for offices, factories, and call centers.
As all this information sank in, I began to think about how the world could make energy affordable and reliable for the poo
In the early 2000s, when our foundation was just starting out, I began traveling to low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia so I could learn more about child mortality, HIV, and the other big problems we were working on. But my mind was not always on diseases. I would fly into major cities, look out the window, and think, Why is it so dark out there? Where are all the lights I d see if this were New York, Paris, or Beijing?
In Lagos, Nigeria, I traveled down unlit streets where people were huddling around fires they had built in old oil barrels. In remote villages, Melinda and I met women and girls who spent hours every day collecting firewood so they could cook over an open flame in their homes. We met kids who did their homework by candlelight because their homes didn t have electricity.
I learned that about a billion people didn t have reliable access to electricity and that half of them lived in sub-Saharan Africa. (The picture has improved a bit since then; today roughly 860 million people don t have electricity.) I thought about our foundation s motto Everyone deserves the chance to live a healthy and productive life and how it s hard to stay healthy if your local medical clinic can t keep vaccines cold because the refrigerators don t work. It s hard to be productive if you don t have lights to read by. And it s impossible to build an economy where everyone has job opportunities if you don t have massive amounts of reliable, affordable electricity for offices, factories, and call centers.
As all this information sank in, I began to think about how the world could make energy affordable and reliable for the poo
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- Autor: Bill Gates
- 2021, International, 272 Seiten, 47 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Doubleday
- ISBN-10: 0385546130
- ISBN-13: 9780385546133
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2021
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Englisch
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Gates gathers advice from experts while laying out his vision for technological innovations that could reduce greenhouse gases and stop the warming of the planet. If even some of his plans work, this might be the most important book of the year. CNNOne of the most accessible, practical, and interesting books on the topic to emerge since Al Gore s An Inconvenient Truth. Oprah Daily
The most comprehensible explanation for what s driving our warming planet; how to measure the impact of the myriad contributions to this staggering and seemingly incalculable problem; and ultimately how to go about finding more effective approaches to each of them. It s the closest thing I ve seen to a how-to guide for addressing the climate crisis. Clinton Leaf, Fortune
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster presents ideas with the methodical approach of a college textbook . . . Remarkably, given the state of the world, it is an optimistic, can-do sort of book, chock-full of solutions. Christina Binkley, The Wall Street Journal Magazine
The most refreshing aspect of this book is its bracing mix of cold-eyed realism and number-crunched optimism . . . Ultimately his book is a primer on how to reorganise the global economy so that innovation focuses on the world s gravest problems. It is a powerful reminder that if mankind is to get serious about tackling them, it must do more to harness the one natural resource available in infinite quantity human ingenuity. The Economist
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 . . . Gates seems energized by the sheer size and complexity of the challenge. That s one of the best things about the book the can-do optimism and conviction that science in partnership with industry are up to the task.
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Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor
In this wonklike and persuasive book, Gates takes his environmental activism a bridge further, laying out an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. Drawing on data from researchers, policymakers, and engineers, Gates advocates for solutions both scientific (like developing alternative fuels) and personal (like increasing civic engagement in environmental justice issues). If you feel a radical shred of hope reading these galvanizing pages, dare to let in without hope, we ll get nowhere. Esquire
With the help of experts in fields such as physics, engineering, chemistry, finance and politics, the technologist and philanthropist offers a practical and accessible plan for getting the world to zero greenhouse gas emissions and averting climate catastrophe. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is clear, concise on a colossal subject, and intelligently holistic in its approach to the problem. Gates may not be the perfect messenger, but he has written a fine primer on how to get ourselves out of this mess. Adama Vaughan, New Scientist
Bill Gates has a plan to save the world . . . While acknowledging that the challenge is daunting, and how we make things, grow things, move around, keep cool and stay warm will all need to fundamentally change, Gates argues that wholesale transformation is possible while maintaining lifestyles in high income countries and continuing to lift billions out of poverty. Greg Williams, Wired
His expertise . . . is apparent in the book s lucid explanations of the scientific aspects of climate change. The solutions he outlines are pragmatic and grounded in forward-thinking economic reasoning. Although he does not avoid the hard truths we must face as our climate changes, Gates remains optimistic and believes that we have the ability to avoid a total climate disaster. Miriam R. Aczel, Science
Concise, straightforward . . . 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. Jeff Rowe, Associated Press
A persuasive, optimistic strategy for reducing greenhouse emissions to zero by midcentury . . . Though Gates doesn t shy away from acknowledging the daunting challenges ahead, his narrative contains enough confidence and hard science and economics to convince many readers that his blueprint is one of the most viable yet . . . supremely authoritative and accessible. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Those looking for an accessible review of how global warming can be countered will find this a handy and maybe even hope-inspiring guide. Publishers Weekly
Gates has put his considerable wealth behind global health, educational, and economic initiatives and now turns his laser-like attention to this most existential of issues . . . He provides illuminating contexts for [his] perspectives and offers a treatise that is imperative, approachable, and useful. Booklist
In this wonklike and persuasive book, Gates takes his environmental activism a bridge further, laying out an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. Drawing on data from researchers, policymakers, and engineers, Gates advocates for solutions both scientific (like developing alternative fuels) and personal (like increasing civic engagement in environmental justice issues). If you feel a radical shred of hope reading these galvanizing pages, dare to let in without hope, we ll get nowhere. Esquire
With the help of experts in fields such as physics, engineering, chemistry, finance and politics, the technologist and philanthropist offers a practical and accessible plan for getting the world to zero greenhouse gas emissions and averting climate catastrophe. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is clear, concise on a colossal subject, and intelligently holistic in its approach to the problem. Gates may not be the perfect messenger, but he has written a fine primer on how to get ourselves out of this mess. Adama Vaughan, New Scientist
Bill Gates has a plan to save the world . . . While acknowledging that the challenge is daunting, and how we make things, grow things, move around, keep cool and stay warm will all need to fundamentally change, Gates argues that wholesale transformation is possible while maintaining lifestyles in high income countries and continuing to lift billions out of poverty. Greg Williams, Wired
His expertise . . . is apparent in the book s lucid explanations of the scientific aspects of climate change. The solutions he outlines are pragmatic and grounded in forward-thinking economic reasoning. Although he does not avoid the hard truths we must face as our climate changes, Gates remains optimistic and believes that we have the ability to avoid a total climate disaster. Miriam R. Aczel, Science
Concise, straightforward . . . 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. Jeff Rowe, Associated Press
A persuasive, optimistic strategy for reducing greenhouse emissions to zero by midcentury . . . Though Gates doesn t shy away from acknowledging the daunting challenges ahead, his narrative contains enough confidence and hard science and economics to convince many readers that his blueprint is one of the most viable yet . . . supremely authoritative and accessible. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Those looking for an accessible review of how global warming can be countered will find this a handy and maybe even hope-inspiring guide. Publishers Weekly
Gates has put his considerable wealth behind global health, educational, and economic initiatives and now turns his laser-like attention to this most existential of issues . . . He provides illuminating contexts for [his] perspectives and offers a treatise that is imperative, approachable, and useful. Booklist
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