Dealing with the Climate Crisis - plans of Bill Gates and President Biden

Bill Gates has a new book coming out about dealing with the changing climate (climate crisis). He cites Joe Biden during the presidential campaign: “The United States must lead the world to take on the existential threat we face—climate change."

Gates has four major proposals for the U.S.:

1. Increase the supply of innovation.
   We need breakthroughs in the way we generate and store clean electricity, grow food, make things, move around, and heat and cool our buildings, so we can do all these things without adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We have some of the tools we need, like solar and wind power, but far from all of them. And we won’t develop new tools without a dramatic infusion of investment and focus from the federal government.
2. Increase the demand for innovation.
   The lesson for climate change is that we can’t avoid a climate disaster through technological innovation alone. We also need policy innovations to make sure that scientists’ breakthroughs make it from the lab to the market, and that they’re affordable enough for developing countries as well as rich ones.
3. Work globally.
   Governments need to work together to develop common goals, share knowledge, and make sure that clean technologies developed in one country will spread quickly to others. This cooperation can happen on a bilateral basis as well as among many governments through venues like the United Nations and Mission Innovation.
4. Prepare for a warming world.
   We’re already seeing the impact of climate change. So even as we develop and deploy ways to prevent future warming, we also need to adapt to the effects that higher temperatures are having around the world. Countries will need to invest in climate-proofing infrastructure to cope with more severe weather and rising sea levels. This includes upgrading electrical grids, expanding storm water drainage systems, and building or expanding seawalls.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/4-ways-the-US-can-reassert-leadership-on-climate-change?WT.mc_id=20210112100000_climate-leadership_BG-EM_&WT.tsrc=BGEM

Biden proposes that addressing the climate crisis will lead to innovation, which leads to products to sell the world market, which leads to jobs. The U.S. can become a world economic leader again.

Biden has chosen cabinet picks to address some of Gate's goals. From Grist, Jan. 19, 2021: He has nominated domestic and international envoys for climate in Gina McCarthy and John Kerry. Buttigieg, to head the Department of Transportation. In South Bend, Indiana, he implemented “complete streets” policies that redesign roads and transportation networks to support more active modes of transportation like walking and cycling, as well as electric vehicles, shuttles, even car-share services. Isabel Guzman of the Small Business Administration and Gina Raimondo of the Department of Commerce could come together to build ideas and infrastructure that promote entrepreneurship around the green-energy economy. Representative Deb Haaland’s nomination to lead the Department of Interior is historic as a Native American. She has championed the 30 by 30 initiative, part of a global effort to protect 30 percent of the world’s lands and waters by 2030. Very important nominations are Gina McCarthy as Biden’s White House climate czar and Brenda Mallory to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. It supports protecting public lands, lowering carbon emissions, and reducing pollution.

Other links to read more about the "Climate Cabinet":
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2021/01/19/494753/biden-administration-brings-state-climate-leadership-white-house/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/01/27/remarks-by-president-biden-before-signing-executive-actions-on-tackling-climate-change-creating-jobs-and-restoring-scientific-integrity/

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