{"id":26,"date":"2023-01-08T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zosettastone.wordpress.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:34:32","slug":"how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster-by-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showey.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid a climate disaster by Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The book is not high literature and contains no poetry or rhapsody on the  beauty of earth or nature.  It is a good practical survey of the climate change problem, paired with an array of plausible technology solutions, very much written by an engineer.\u00a0  I liked the way Gates methodically dissected the planet&#8217;s use of energy: &#8220;How We Plug In, Make Things, Grow Things, Get Around, Keep Cool and Stay Warm&#8221;.  I also admired Bill&#8217;s pragmatic approach: he does not particularly advocate for lower personal consumption, but recognizes that higher consumption is the means to which most of the planet will realize a higher standard of living.  Gates advocates for better and cleaner sources of energy, for more efficient agriculture practices, and heating\/cooling methods, but he does not suggest that developing nations, for instance, ought to scale back the size and speed of their development.  I quite liked this argument, even if the &#8220;better and cleaner&#8221; sources of energy aren&#8217;t yet entirely apparent.  I also enjoyed learning Breakthrough Energy&#8217;s projects, which are arranged around these 5 themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One does get the sense that Bill Gates is deeply interested in using technology to affect positive change, and doing so at scale.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book is not high literature and contains no poetry or rhapsody on the beauty of earth or nature. It is a good practical survey of the climate change problem, paired with an array of plausible technology solutions, very much written by an engineer.\u00a0 I liked the way Gates methodically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}