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Bill Gates' recent book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" is a pretty comprehensive look at the landscape of how to change course on climate. I liked it. It's f
by bonniemuffin 4y ago
Bill Gates' recent book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" is a pretty comprehensive look at the landscape of how to change course on climate. I liked it. It's fairly optimistic overall, but it'll definitely take LOTS of large solutions, not just one giant investment even if we had $100 trillion to dump into a single solution. There's no single solution that will solve it, but there are lots of smaller ones that will make a big difference if we move forward on all of them in parallel.
- O__________O 4y agoThanks, I will look at it, aware it’s out, know when he was pitching it that to me there appeared to be factual inaccuracies, but after spending far amount of time trying to sort it out, gave up; specifically his meat recommendations not only didn’t appear to add up — but he also appeared to have conflicting interests via number of different investments; which in turn, lead to me questions it in sum. I know Bill has had a lot of experience dealing with global efforts, learned a lot, and even has had number of clever ways to get people to listen. Issue to me is that at 10,000 reviews on Amazon, I figure that if there was actual new and useful information it would have already made a difference; quick look at the one-star reviews makes me wonder how to evaluate his take on what progress means. And yes, completely agree it going to take a number of solutions, mainly mentioned $100 trillion solution since to my friend, and I guessing a lot of people, they just keep wishing there was a magic, cheap solution — but there’s not; which to me is largest problem, individuals not acknowledging billions of people need to change, this is not about just throwing money or technology at the problem.