Book review: How to avoid a climate disaster - The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
Review was written by YES-Europe Greece team member, Kyriakos Zagkoumidis 51 billion tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions to zero. That is the clear goal that Bill Gates sets from the very beginning and spends the rest of the book explaining how we could achieve it. The author has spent the last decade investigating the complex causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts from a variety of scientific and economic fields, he has focused on what has to be done in order to avoid a global environmental and climate disaster. Throughout this book, the major sectors of human activity that contribute to climate change are addressed individually. These sectors are power generation, production of construction materials, agriculture/livestock farming, transportation, and heating/cooling. In the respective chapters of each sector, Gates provides an overview of its contribution to the issue and presents the currently available technologies in order to combat it. In additio...