Over time, those companies may have many competitors and work on different food areas and the price of those things will come down and the quality will go up, and at some point, it may be a superior way of doing things and the whole market will shift even if the government doesn’t say, ‘OK we are going to tax the stuff that causes emissions’,” he says pointing out that all the areas that are the biggest sources of CO2 emissions need innovation. “About the artificial meat, if you’d asked me five years ago, I would have said that was going to be very difficult but a lot of new companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are selling their ground beef and some other products in the US market and are getting quite a bit of good acceptance.
The fact that it accumulates slowly and just gets slightly worse can’t fool us into not taking early action,” says Gates who is enthused about the possibilities of everything from plant-based and cellular meat to electric vehicles and the use of nuclear power instead of coal to generate electricity. “Unlike the pandemic, you won’t be able to get out o f it with just a single tool like a vaccine. So my book is to suggest the elements of a plan,” he says adding that battling climate change is the hardest thing humanity has ever done.
And yet this movement doesn’t really have a plan. “The younger generation more and more is going to demand progress, it will be the moral cause of their generation across religions and countries and so they deserve a plan. To achieve that goal requires much innovation, and a shift to new ways of doing things. You have to do even the hard ones,” he said during a video interview. The challenge to get to zero is you can’t skip any of these areas of emissions. Electricity, transport, food, buildings and manufacturing are the biggest areas of emissions.
They aren’t aware that there are many other sources of CO2 emissions including when we make cement or steel or when we grow cows - in some countries to eat beef. “When people think about climate, they think about making electricity and about passenger cars mostly.
Approaching the monumental crisis as a problem to be solved, he provides us with a plan to bring carbon dioxide emissions down to zero by the year 2050. Not for him a horrified paralysis as the world ends in fire or ice. Reading How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates’ new book, you are struck by his belief that the world can be changed for the better, perfected, saved that humankind can stop climate change if we sincerely tried.
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