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Crap."Bill Gates' book personifies the interests of capital, and thus its only real use to the reader is to expose the system as a whole." Full review > http://resolutereader.blogspot.com/20...
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is an interesting and well-informed look at the current state of our ever-increasing energy consumption and the way it affects climate change. In light of that information, Gates proposes ideas of how we can change the way we produce and consume energy so that we can get down to zero carbon dioxide emissions while not making ourselves worse off in the process. This is a very industry-focused book as opposed to discussing what people can do on an individual level t...
In America, we love our billionaires. We love when they "innovate," we love when they offer "bold solutions" to our greatest challenges. After all, they've beat the game. Their riches are proof of their cunning & genius. It follows then, that we love when they write books. There's nothing in this you haven't heard before: five dollar buzz words, lots of talk of bringing things to market, grand plans for the entire world only a true monopolist could conjure. The problem with Mr. Gates' book, as i...
”To stop global warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change, humans need to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.This sounds difficult, because it will be. The world has never done anything quite this big. Every country will need to change its ways, because virtually every activity in modern life--growing things, making things, getting around from place to place--involves releasing greenhouse gases.If nothing else changes, the world will keep producing greenhouse gases, clima...
Billionaires are the leading cause of climate change.