How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

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在比尔·盖茨写的《如何避免气候灾难:我们拥有的解决方案和我们需要的突破》一书中,他对这个时代面临的最大挑战,以及我们必须做出哪些改变才能避免让我们的星球陷入困境做出了冷静、理性、来源充分的解释。盖茨在书中提出要求,我们应该在任何可能的情况下购买绿色产品,人们还必须制定公共策略,使我们走上全球零温室气体排放的道路。

In a typical year the world emits over 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases and as we keep doing that, the consequences for human life will be catastrophic.

When I first fell in love with computers as a teenager, they were enormous, expensive, and only the government and big companies could afford them.

But my friends and I became obsessed with a wild idea.

What could we do if there was a computer on every desk?

And now the wild idea is quite tame.

Billions of people not only have computers on their desk but even in their pockets.

Now the world needs another breakthrough.

In fact it needs many breakthroughs.

We need to get from 51 billion tons to zero while still meeting the planet's basic needs.

That means we need to transform the way we do almost everything.

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