Bill Gates: If you read one thing about climate change, make it this

I've never really spent any time with Twitter, but wow what a frustrating platform. The lead comments range from total insanity to a guy asking for a job, mixed with a few sorta logical comments....

> Government support for energy R&D is one of the best opportunities to fight climate change.

To give an idea of the current spend:

In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e...

The one thing is how unbelievably hard would be to reach 2 deg target:

http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtml

The problem is: we should not despair but act and politicians don't like to ask the voters to sacrifice for a goal of making the future less worse.

Link to the article: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/11/2068861...

what a bad title. "one thing this week ".

at the picture: waste of fertile land for engery production is a worng way to save the climate...