Refreshing honestyįor the most part, he succeeds. “When we have a fact-based view of climate, we can see that we have some of the things we need to avoid a climate disaster, but not all of them,” Gates writes.
Moreover, his foundation’s work on issues including health and poverty across the globe has given him a better awareness than many writers of how a carbon fix that works for the US may not work for India.Īnd unlike some climate books siloed in just science or politics or business, he looks across all the sectors needed to eliminate humanity’s annual output of 51 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.ĭense with numbers and facts and peppered with charts and tables, it is clear Gates would like this book to be the climate solution equivalent of the late Hans Rosling’s excellent dissection of skewed perceptions of the state of the world, Factfulness.
On the other hand, he has an eye for detail, a knack for simply explaining complex issues, and an attractively unabashed interest in fertiliser depots and power stations.
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