![]() ![]() He also supports replacing actual animal meat with “meat” made from plants and chemicals because raising cows, pigs, and chickens generates so much methane, another climate culprit that doesn’t get as much attention as CO 2. Gates co-founded Microsoft and is a billionaire many times over, so “acting fast” to him means investing millions of dollars in developing new technologies that will enable society to stop using carbon-intense coal, oil, and natural gas to power everything from our cars to our clothes dryers. ![]() We already have some of the tools we need, and as for those we don’t yet have…we can invent them, deploy them, and, if we act fast enough, avoid a climate catastrophe.” “If nothing else changes, the world will keep producing greenhouse gases, climate change will keep getting worse, and the impact on humans will in all likelihood be catastrophic. “To stop the warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change - and these effects will be very bad - humans need to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. ![]() ![]() His book opens with a powerful call to action: His new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the BREAKTHROUGHS WE NEED, argues that the way to do so is by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ZERO by the time 2050 rolls around. We are a community of over one million parents united against air and climate pollution to protect our children’s health.īill Gates believes that climate change poses an environmental and human crisis of epic proportions - and he wants to stop it. ![]()
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