How to Avoid Climate Disaster

by Bill Gates

In first person by one of the World’s best thinkers of recent times. I found it the most helpful way to think about the direction of climate change so far.

Unlike our previous read on the topic, Gates succeeds at avoiding the pointless political debate and provides a clear five question framework: how we plug in, make things, grow them, get around, stay cool or warm ourselves.

Very factual, wonky at times, I found the framework as simple as compelling – the best I have seen to date. The explanations are vivid and convincing. Getting through the first two chapters is the toughest challenge, a bleak pessimistic view. But the numbers and the facts do the talking.

Beyond the framework, he surfaces a set of exciting set of business opportunities that are likely to fix the problem coupled with changing consumer behavior. I found these more compelling than some of the policy prescriptions which you do not necessarily have to agree. It is evident that his thinking has percolated among policy makers.

A must-read.