Why Tony loves this book
Bill Gates is a technological optimist when it comes to Climate Change although even he concedes that we need an 'energy miracle' to help solve climate change and provide clean energy to the poorest people on the plane. This is the most important topic for humanity in the next 20 plus years and Gates lays out both the sources of global warming and possible solutions for the world. I think this is really an important and readable book that people should read.
Full disclosure: I worked at Microsoft with Bill as my manager's manager.
10 authors picked How to Avoid a Climate Disaster as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions…
