How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Quotes

Rate this book
Clear rating
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
50,512 ratings, 4.12 average rating, 5,036 reviews
Open Preview
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Quotes Showing 31-60 of 193
“Just think about how many landowners, utility companies, and local and state governments you’d need to bring together to build power lines that could move solar energy from the Southwest all the way to customers in New England. Merely picking the routes and establishing rights-of-way would be a massive undertaking; people tend to object when you want to run a big power line through the local park.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Since the beginning of the electric grid, utilities have placed most power plants close to America’s rapidly growing cities, because it was relatively easy to use railroads and pipelines to ship fossil fuels from wherever they were extracted to the power plants where they’d be burned to make electricity. As a result, America’s power grid relies on railroads and pipelines to move fuels over long distances to power plants, and then on transmission lines to move electricity over short distances to the cities that need it. That model doesn’t work with solar and wind. You can’t ship sunlight in a railcar to some power plant; it has to be converted to electricity on the spot. But most of America’s sunlight supply is in the Southwest, and most of our wind is in the Great Plains, far from many major urban areas.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Meanwhile, making steel and cement alone accounts for around 10 percent of all emissions. So the question “What’s your plan for cement?” is just a shorthand reminder that if you’re trying to come up with a comprehensive plan for climate change, you have to account for much more than electricity and cars.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Tip: Whenever you see some number of tons of greenhouse gases, convert it to a percentage of 51 billion, which is the world’s current yearly total emissions (in carbon dioxide equivalents).”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“It may sound as if I’m cherry-picking”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most from it.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Pound for pound, the best lithium-ion battery available today packs 35 times less energy than gasoline.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“David Foster Wallace. (I’m preparing for his mammoth novel Infinite Jest by”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Bir BM AJansı taradından yapılan çalışma, kadınlar kaynaklara erkeklerle aynı düzeyde erişme şansına sahip olsalardı, çiftliklerinde yüzde 20-30 daha fazla ürün yetiştirebileceklerini ve dünyadaki aç insanların sayısını yüzde 12-17 arasında azaltabileceklerini gösterdi.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The New Climate War, The Rare Metals War 3 Books Collection Set
“Adaletsizliğin acımasız sonucu, temelde iklim değişikliğine neden olacak hiçbir şey yapmayan yoksulların, bundan en çok acı çekecek kesim olmaları.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The New Climate War, The Rare Metals War 3 Books Collection Set
“Bugün Çad'da doğan bir çocuğun Finlandiya'da doğan bir çocuğa kıyasla beşinci doğum gününden önce ölme olasılığı 50 kat daha fazladır.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The New Climate War, The Rare Metals War 3 Books Collection Set
“İnsanlar gelir merdivenininde yükseldikçe, emisyona neden olan şeyleri daha fazla yaparlar.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The New Climate War, The Rare Metals War 3 Books Collection Set
“Cities need to change the way they grow. Urban areas are home to more than half the people on earth—a proportion that will rise in the years ahead—and they’re responsible for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“that a lot? Over the past decade, we’ve added an average of 22 gigawatts a year. Now we need to install more than three times that much each year, and keep up the pace for the next three decades.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Bu konularla merak edilen şeyleri açıklamada iklim101 gibi bir kitap. İstatistikler, kendi yorumları ile bende bir fikir oluşturtu.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The New Climate War, The Rare Metals War 3 Books Collection Set
“If you like having an ozone layer, you can thank an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Together, furnaces and water heaters account for a third of all emissions that come from the world’s buildings. And unlike lights and A/C units, most of them run on fossil fuels, not electricity. (Whether you use natural gas, heating oil, or propane depends largely on where you live.)”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“F-gases are extremely powerful contributors to climate change: Over the course of a century, they cause thousands of times more warming than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. If you don’t hear much about them, it’s because they’re not a huge percentage of greenhouse gases; in the United States, they represent about 3 percent of emissions.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“It’s aviation, trucking, and shipping—not passenger cars—that account for all the emissions growth in this sector.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“In Africa, for example, it’s a matter of clearing land to grow food and fuel for the continent’s growing population. Nigeria, which has had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, has lost more than 60 percent of its forest cover since 1990, and it’s one of the world’s biggest exporters of charcoal, which is created by charring wood.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“As the world eats more meat, it accelerates the deforestation in Latin America. More burgers anywhere mean fewer trees there.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“What’s now known as the Haber-Bosch process made it possible to create synthetic fertilizer, greatly expanding both the amount of food that could be grown and the range of geographies where it could be grown.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“And it’s a huge boon for animal welfare whenever fewer livestock are being kept in small cages.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Another, more theoretical approach involves making cement out of seawater and the carbon dioxide captured from power plants. The inventors behind this idea think it could ultimately cut emissions by more than 70 percent.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“All these different types of plastics have one thing in common: They contain carbon. Carbon, it turns out, is useful in creating all sorts of different materials because it bonds easily with a wide variety of different elements; in the case of plastics, it’s usually clustered with hydrogen and oxygen.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Nobody knows of a way to make cement without going through this process. It’s a chemical reaction—limestone plus heat equals calcium oxide plus carbon dioxide—and there’s no way around it. It’s a one-to-one relationship. Make a ton of cement, and you’ll get a ton of carbon dioxide.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“These “point capture” devices have existed for decades, but they’re expensive to buy and operate, they generally capture only 90 percent of the greenhouse gases involved, and power companies don’t gain anything from installing them. So very few are in use.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“What’s most important is that the world get serious once again about advancing the field of nuclear energy. It’s just too promising to ignore”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Nuclear fusion. There’s another, entirely different approach to nuclear power that’s quite promising but still at least a decade away from supplying electricity to consumers. Instead of getting energy by splitting atoms apart, as fission does, it involves pushing them together, or fusing them.”
Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need