![]() ![]() My sense, and that of everyone else in the room, was that he really didn’t want to be there. He also calls for a greatly expanded role for government-in research and development, standards setting and incentives. That reminded me of when I first met Gates: 25 years ago at dinner, the Microsoft CEO hosted for a group of cabinet officials, Congress members, and a few journalists on one of his very first visits to Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() While on vacation last week, I belatedly finished Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster and now can recommend the book wholeheartedly. Gates avoids the Malthusian anti-growth instincts of most climate activists, focusing instead on innovations necessary to allow both growth and climate sanity-including electricity storage, biofuels, zero-carbon cement and steel, nuclear power, carbon capture, etc. ![]()
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