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Title How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Bill Gates.
Author Gates, Bill, 1955- author.
Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description 257 pages : illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Hillside  363.7387 GAT Nearby on shelf  30641006305077 04-27-21  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.
Contents Introduction: 51 billion to zero -- Why zero? -- This will be hard -- Five questions to ask in every climate conversation -- How we plug in -- How we make things -- How we grow things -- How we get around -- How we keep cool and stay warm -- Adapting to a warmer world -- Why government policies matter -- A plan for getting to zero -- What each of us can do -- Afterword: climate change and COVID-19.
Summary "The technologist, business leader and philanthropist who founded Microsoft draws on the input of experts in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance to create an accessible, concrete plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid certain environmental disaster. Illustrations."-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Gates, Bill, 1955- How to avoid a climate disaster. First edition New York : Doubleday, [2020] 9780385546140
Subject Climatic changes -- Prevention -- Technological innovations.
Global warming -- Prevention -- Technological innovations.
Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
ISBN 9780385546133
0385546130