According to foreign media reports, on Monday local time in the United States, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced through a blog post thatFor the rest of the week, college students can download the electronic version of their best-selling book How to Avoid Climate Disasters for free. Gates’s move aims to attract more college students to pay attention to climate change issues.
This 384-page new book first appeared on the New York Times’ non-fiction bestseller list in February 2021. In the book, Gates talked about the climate crisis and its impact, and proposed research on green environmental technology. And innovative methods to help prevent a global disaster.
Now, the book can be downloaded for free from Gates’ personal blog site Gatesnote. However, college students need to provide their email address and school name in order to download Gates’ book, the file format is “.epub” for use by e-reader applications.
Gates said in a blog post that seeing young people’s enthusiasm for fighting climate change was “one of the main motivations” for his original book. He wrote: “Young people demand that the government take responsibility and promise to eliminate carbon emissions. Therefore, the government has made these commitments. Now, what we need is a plan to achieve zero carbon emissions.”
Gates also said: “I mentioned in the book many actions that need to be taken to help keep the earth suitable for human habitation. We need to completely change our entire real economy, including our moving things on the earth, producing electricity, and manufacturing things. , Growing food, and heating and cooling our buildings.”
Gates wrote in his blog: “Achieving zero emissions will be the most difficult thing people have ever done. But I believe we can do it. I am optimistic about what science and technology can achieve, and more importantly, I believe The enthusiasm of young people, they will play a special role in meeting this challenge. According to my experience, they have the latest ideas and they are also people who are able to realize them.”
Gates has made a lot of headlines recently, from his recent high-profile divorce to his withdrawal last year due to an affair with an employee.MicrosoftThe board of directors, there are many. But this has not stopped the billionaire philanthropist from promoting the new book, which promotes the proposal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions globally by 2050, including the development of new zero-emission energy technologies and the reduction of existing renewable energy. the cost of.
The book also includes advice to ordinary people, such as calling on people to buy sustainable products. Neither the blog nor the Gatesnote website specified an exact end date for the free download of the new book, and Gatesnote did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.
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