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
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Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
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Bill Gates
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Bill Gates
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
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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The most important issue for the world.
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Very pedagogical
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Whilst enthusiastic and varied the narration can at times be distracting and patronising.
Overall a book I would definitely recommend to anyone interested in the subject.
Succinct, engaging and challenging
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Otherwise, an informative book helping me understand which are the biggest producers of C02.
Who did the pdf?
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Eye opening
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Essential read by everyone!
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Excellent
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A book to be listened to by everybody.
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However: If you look for a well structured, easy to follow story line book on what climate change is and what our options are at a high level with a number of deeper dives on key arguments, then this is your book. It is clear and credible and I like the fact that it sticks to facts and science and leaves out emotionally charged political topics - there are enough other books out there for that. I could recommmend this book to anybody, no matter what prior education level on this topic. It even goes through the effort of making science clear, clarifying the lazy language (e.g. explaing that when everybody says Carbon, they actual mean Carbon Dioxide - am I the only person hating the fact that "Technology" was hijacked by the digital jocks?), and making big number like a Giga ton of emisson relateable. No news for experts but even for myself (relevant technical background) a great reminder and a perfect tool how I can communicate these points better in the future to a wider audience. Everything is being made relateable, one of the big positives of this book - many have tried this, but this book properly succeededon that front.
The book structure is clear, going through all the various sources of carbon (CO2) emission that make up the 51 Gt (which is number that brings everything together), one by one and what we can do about it. It explains all the mainstream technologies already available but also makes the case that we need many new innovations going forward to fix this. Even the battered and usually emotionally charged "Geo-Engineering" topic is addressed and positioned in a factual way and why it cannot just be dismissed. Cooling technologies are being looked into adressing the most pressing issue, rising temperatures. The one tech missing is active ocean cooling (not just prevention of incoming radiation), which was probably too early stage when book was published. A logical point of attack as that is where 90% of the excess heat is now stored.
The last Chapter is very much a US focussed call for action within the US political system and each listener outside the US needs to translate this to their own circumstances. For me, not living in the US, it was a bit of a less exciting finish of the book which the "Final words" could not pull it back again.
And finally on the narrator: This is a matter of taste. I am biased as I loved his role in the "Big Bang Theory" (yes, I am a geek) and with that enjoyed listening to his voice. His articstic footprint is to add emphasis to a lot of words which in my view helps the listener to focus in the right areas, adds additional guidance, but I can see how it might come across as patronising to others. I however much prefer this delivery to the many robotic, dipassionate deliveries I have experienced with other Audio-books that often make me disengage and then have to wind back to listen again.
Well done Bill and Will.
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