During the last ice age, the average temperature was just 6 degrees Celsius lower than it is today. During the age of the dinosaurs, when the average temperature was perhaps 4 degrees Celsius higher than today, there were crocodiles living above the Arctic Circle.

— Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

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Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day – and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

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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.

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To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar.

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The climate is like a bathtub that’s slowly filling up with water. Even if we slow the flow of water to a trickle, the tub will eventually fill up and water will come spilling out onto the floor. That’s the disaster we have to prevent. Setting a goal to only reduce our emissions – but not eliminate them – won’t do it.

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The point is that when we focus on all three things at once – technology, policies, and markets – we can encourage innovation, spark new companies, and get new products into the market fast.

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Remember that we need to find solutions for all five activities that emissions come from: making things, plugging in, growing things, getting around, and keeping cool and warm.

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Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.

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If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and then imagine spreading the pain out over a much longer period of time.

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It may sound old-fashioned, but letters and phone calls to your elected officials can have a real impact.

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The world uses more than 4 billion gallons every day. When you’re using any product at that kind of volume, you can’t simply stop overnight.

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But I hope you’ll spend more time and energy supporting whatever you’re in favor of than opposing whatever you’re against.

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There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year.

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How many people will be killed by COVID-19 versus by climate change?

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But we can’t solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.

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Solar cells, for example, got almost 10 times cheaper between 2010 and 2020, and the price of a full solar system went down by 11 percent in 2019 alone.

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But giving people more information can help them make better choices.

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During the last ice age, the average temperature was just 6 degrees Celsius lower than it is today. During the age of the dinosaurs, when the average temperature was perhaps 4 degrees Celsius higher than today, there were crocodiles living above the Arctic Circle.

— Bill Gates

Earlier, I mentioned a related technology called direct air capture. It involves exactly what the name implies: capturing carbon directly from the air. DAC is more flexible than point capture, because you can do it anywhere. And in all likelihood, it’ll be a crucial part of getting to zero; one study by the National Academy of Sciences found that we’ll need to be removing about 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by mid-century and about 20 billion by the end of the century.

— Bill Gates

In essence, governments can say to each other, “If you want to do business with us, you’ll have to take climate change seriously.

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