How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

Favorite Quote

“To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar.” — Bill Gates

The Book in One Sentence

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is a plea to people, governments, and business leaders to reduce greenhouse emissions by changing the way we make things, grow food, use electricity, transport people and goods, and keep warm and cool, offering specific suggestions in each category to both individuals and powerful organizations.

Why should you read it?

Climate change is real, but even though the planet is warming, it takes a cool, level-headed approach to deal with our environmental challenges. Bill Gates brings that approach to everything he does, including this book. If you’re interested in the hard facts of climate change and the science behind them, read this one. Gates groups our challenges in ways we can all understand and offers practical solutions we can start working on today. If you want to replace planless panicking and slacktivism with real climate action, this book is for you.

Key Takeaways

1. We’re going to have to get pretty creative if we want to get our electrical requirements to zero emissions.
2. Improving the way we do transportation is worth the high price tag.
3. We can do things right now to help the climate situation by changing the way we heat and cool things.