Gates, B: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Entrepreneurial approach to solving the climate hassard

Bewertung am 01.02.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1871338
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB 3)

A very practical approach to the solution and a dummies down to earth explanation of the problem. If governments would be able to apply the same mindset as Bill Gates did in Microsoft, we'd be way closer to a unified solution.

Excellent summary & roadmap

Bewertung aus Zürich am 22.12.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1627208
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Climate change is a broad and complex topic. Plus, many people find it difficult to see clearly on the subject, given that it is politically loaded. Bill Gates provides an excellent "top-down", "high-level" view and roadmap on the topic, clearly answering questions like: Where do our emissions actually come from (e.g. electricity generation vs. manufacturing vs. transportation vs. heating/cooling)? What carbon-free alternative technologies do we already have in each of these fields? What is today's "green premium" (i.e. the cost differential) between them and the currently used technologies? By doing so, he provides a roadmap of which areas/technologies still require most innovation to bring down premiums (or state intervention to increase the cost of producing externalities). Scientists and experts on the topic probably won't find many new deep insights in this book, but for any interested layman or politician who wonders which levers we need to work on most urgently, this is an invaluable roadmap.