Bill Gates has 5 book recommendations for your 2022 summer reading list: 'Compelling without sacrificing any complexity.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
" is a sci-fi – or cli-fi, short for "climate fiction" – novel published in 2020. It is set in the near future, and follows a fictional global organization that spearheads various efforts to combat climate change.who wrote his own book putting forth potential solutions to climate change last year.
Today, Gates writes that most of Smil's books read like textbooks – but "this one is written for a general audience and gives an overview of the main areas of his expertise." It covers how energy has shaped the history of civilization, from agricultural societies to our modern, industrial age. Smil "has crunched all of the numbers" to deliver "a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life," Gates writes.
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