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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. He explains how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions - investing in research, inventing new technologies and deploying them quickly at a large scale. Gates is optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

This is a visionary and inspiring book by one of the world's most celebrated public figures.

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Bill does a great job of explaining the challenges associated with climate change. I loved listening to all the facts and figures of different industries and the progress being made in our pursuit of clean energy breakthroughs.

When it came to the last chapter about what “we” can do, there are many great things Bill suggests. The only thing that disappointed me about this book is not once did Bill address the amount of products/food we consume. There are plenty of suggestions for “cleaner” options but to not mention anything about our consumption behaviours in terms of quantity is a fundamental roadblock in Bill’s capitalist mindset, in my opinion. If we don’t address how much we consume, a breakthrough in clean energy innovation and reducing green premiums will not be enough to save us.

This book is still very much worth a listen to educate yourself further on climate change. I did enjoy it and will still recommend it to others.

Cheers!

Great book! But one thing missing.

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This book is a banger. Gets straight to the point without any BS filler content.

Definitely required reading.

Straight to the point. Great.

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really enjoyed it just a really interesting take on moving us towards a cleaner engergy solutions and be realistic expectations on how to archive it.

very interesting and inspiring

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I came into this with low expectations for the entertainment value of a book on climate change. But I was delighted to find Bills writing both witty and funny. Great read!

Interesting and funny

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Loved it, Bills pragmatic approach made me realise the real difficulties of climate change but also gives hopes for potential solutions

Thought provoking book about the climate problem

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it is very factual and structured book, providing the scientific data to understand climate change, while providing insights and suggestions on the challenges ahead and policy needed towards reaching a net zero solutions across industries. loved it.

an important overview on climate change

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A good book written really simply so most people will understand the science without needing to be a scientist. There are a few analogies to covid which detract from the book and ideally a second version should remove or correct them. Overall the message is great and easy to comprehend.

worth a listen particularly by non scientists

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I found this book very informative and easy to listen to. however, there is a lot of information and complex theory that may take a few reads to fully grasp. Bill is clearly very well read and cares deeply about the world. It's crazy all the rubbish that comes up on social media about this guy, maybe more people should read this book.

very informative and easy to listen to

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really opened my eyes on the real issues and causes of thoes issues in todays society.

eye opener

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I expected a billionaire's blah blah blah with complicated statistics and science info, but it is in fact a book everyone must read.

Surprisingly informative

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