Climate Solutions: How to Avoid Disaster and Unlock Breakthroughs for a Better Future

Jexpat: All aspects and dangers of climate change are well defined and explained. Unfortunately Mr Gates avoides the trickier political and monetary solutions (ie. taxes!) and hopes that technical solutions will work, but most of these are not available yet (nuclear fusion) or very expensive (green hydrogen, carbon capture, etc.). However, worth reading.

Spain on Mar 11, 2024

Kindle Customer: Presents a complete picture of what contributes greenhouse gas emissions and what needs to be done to reduce emissions in each sector.

India on Feb 13, 2024

BilNev: Comprehensive and reader friendly book. All important information regarding climate change and strategies to overcome it in one place in a very systematic presentation. I have been reading about climate change a lot (mostly articles and books from different scientists and different countries), but this book help me to put everything I knew in broader perspective acquire

Germany on Jun 22, 2023

Oscar Lozada: The purpose of this book is to be conscious about the real problem that represent the climate change, in addition of a well structured division of each area involved in the problem, and followed by specific actions which every stakeholder can work to accomplish the big goal of get to zero greenhouse gasses emission.
Read this book can represent your first step to achieve the big global goal.
Have a happy reading!

Mexico on Aug 27, 2022

GC: We need more clarity and good mental models to address climate change. Bill Gates can provide both in his book. Not having an anti-growth approach is always more constructive and realistic, and that is what you get from Gates.
The book is very clear for people that are not experts in most of the topics in need to address, like myself. I feel enlightened and motivated to do more, the most I can to do my part. People that don’t know how to help should read, but most of all business leaders and politicians should stop what they are doing and pick this book up.

Brazil on Apr 05, 2021

G. C. Carter: The book entitled: “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need” by Bill Gates is a well written treatise on climate change worth purchasing and reading including actions needed. As an entrepreneur and capitalist now focused on giving his accumulated wealth to important world charities, Gates, with the aid of many acknowledged contributors writes a compelling outline of what the private sector and government should do in a coordinated manner to combat climate change.
In a perfect world, one could speculate that the book should have been written by John Kerry, the new Climate czar but it still could be used as a road map for aggressive coordinated actions to be taken to control man-made climate change. Short of that, the book provides great technical detail and insight into a balanced approach to moving forward with both policy and technical actions.
The main theme of the book is: “Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year. … Zero is what we need to aim for.” The author states: “It’s hard to say exactly how much of America’s electricity will come from...

United States on Mar 13, 2021

Simon Lack: Bill Gates readily concedes that the world isn’t short of “rich men with big ideas” in How To Avoid A Climate Disaster. He brings an intellectual honesty to the climate change debate that is absent from Democrat policy prescriptions, and often ignored by Republicans. Gates has done his homework, producing a book spilling over with facts and insights. The climate impact of each human activity (use of power, making things, moving around) is presented, along with its contribution to the 51 billion tons of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) emitted annually. He presents the issues in an easily understood framework that many readers should find engaging and accessible.

Although Bill Gates is surely a Democrat, it’s unlikely progressives will welcome his contribution. He dismisses Democrat orthodoxy by showing that the energy transition will be very expensive. He feels we should be motivated by the moral obligation to counter planetary warming because it will harm poorer countries the most. Rich countries can afford to manage rising sea levels (see Netherlands).

Since the Gates Foundation is focused on disease and malnutrition in the developing world, his altruistic view...

United States on Feb 22, 2021