This month, Knopf will publish his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. These efforts led him to consider climate change and its vexing impact on civilization. For 20 years, Gates has been studying the twin global afflictions of disease and poverty. Online sales of “prepper” gear (gas masks, food preservation kits) were brisk.īill Gates was at his lakeside compound in Seattle, gearing up for his next effort to save the planet from mass extinction. As the Covid-19 pandemic drove city dwellers to search for places that felt surer, safer-Vermont, Kansas, Idaho-the FBI began arresting Americans who had rioted in the U.S. NASA had just announced that 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record.
A day before the inauguration, as Lady Gaga rehearsed “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Washington, D.C., wildfires burned in Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Ventura counties in California, shocking climatologists who had never witnessed the state’s fire season extend into January.
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