A Review of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: the Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (by Bill Gates)

This is a book review provided by T. David Dougherty, a member of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, in December 2021.

Recommendation

I think everyone, including climate scientists, technology entrepreneurs, politicians, and ordinary citizens could benefit from reading this book.  If enough of us did so, it would help create the common purpose that will be needed to address the climate crisis, and eventually to move beyond it to the matching our population to our planet’s carrying capacity.

This book could particularly benefit children in the senior years of high school.  They will soon graduate into the consumer society of the modern techno-industrial countries or the less industrialized society of other nations.  In either, the book could help these students be better equipped to understand the world into which they are about to emerge as independent actors, subject to influence and playing contributory parts.

Rating

Much of my own reading is either scientific or historical fiction.  This book fits neither category.  It is an exploration of personal insights into how the world works.

To my delight, I found that this book rates 9 out of 10, a mark I rarely award.  Surely, someone could write something better in this genre, but I have yet to see such a book.  As my ski instructors used to say, 10 out of 10 is reserved for descents in which the moguls and trees part to make way for the athlete.

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