Brave New World

TRACK CHANGE: WHY HUMANS MUST RACE TO ZERO BILL GATES Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Five years before the Covid pandemic began, Bill Gates predicted that the next thing to kill over 10 million people would be an infectious virus. His latest warnings about an upcoming climate disaster have many alarmed. From how to de-carbonize 70 per cent of the world economy to the development of affordable green products, he sees innovation playing a big role in switching the world over to clean energy-based technology. He sets a tight timeline, saying we need to invent all the new technology we need in the next decade so that we have another 20 years after that to bring global greenhouse gas emissions down from 51 billion tonnes per year to zero by 2050.

ON THE THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE, THE TECHNOLOGY OF TOMORROW, AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TODAY