Bill Gates: Let's intervene immediately, here's who'll cause more deaths than pandemic.

Global instability is nothing before the climate crisis. Although the death toll is very high in this pandemic, it is not compared to the figures that could result from the natural destructions of floods, forest burns, and a hot climate, as we have seen in recent years.” These are the words of philanthropist and billionaire Bill Gates in an interview for American television CBN.

However, the billionaire has already not raised a mere concern about this important cause for mankind and has moved things further with the publication of the new book: “How to avoid a climate disaster” where it describes the ways and steps to take towards this global goal.

It seems somewhat impossible for a man to impose on the world in this way, but in reality Gates' credibility has grown that after the warning he made at a Ted Talk in 2015 for a global pandemic awaiting the world and the fact that governments were unprepared for it. The next challenge is now much more difficult, according to him, as the deadline for reaching zero emissions seems distant, but in reality taking steps should start quickly.

Bill Gates wants you to know two numbers: 51 billion and zero. The first is the number of greenhouse gas tones that usually add to the atmosphere each year as a result of human activities. The latter is the number of tones we have to achieve by 2050 in order to avoid a climate crisis.

How much will it cost?

In December, Gates suggested in his blog that the US establish a National Energy Innovation Institute to help the country take the lead in innovation of climate change. The idea is to be molded according to the National Institute of Health, the backbone of US medical research, which has an annual budget of about 37 billion dollars. Gates says the American government's current energy innovation research costs are about $7 billion a year; this would have to be fivefold to comply with government spending for NIH.

Where are Gates investing?

Gates, whose $112 billion wealth stems from about 1% of the shares in Microsoft and a variety of other investments, says in the book, therefore he has placed “more than $1 billion” in companies working towards zero emissions.

He has indicated Forbes has invested about $2 billion. He describes himself as perhaps the biggest sponsor of direct air capture technology methods to capture carbon from the air. Two of the best-known companies in which he was an investor are producing plant-based meat: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat.

Gates has also invested in zero carbon company via Breakthhrough Energy Ventures, a group of investors created by the one that began operating in December 2016

Although many of the companies are still in early stages, Gates describes some as real wild “ ”, including QuidNet, who is working to preserve electricity by pumping water into underground wells under pressure; when energy is needed, water is released and passed through a turbine, creating electricity.

If nothing else, Gates wants to make people talk. “My hope is that we can shift the conversation by sharing the facts with people in our lives, family members, friends and leaders. And not only do the facts that tell us why we should act but also the ones that show us the best actions”, he writes. /Buriment: The theme/Forbes/