“How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?” trill the nuns in The Sound of Music. After creating the world’s leading software company and bringing vaccines to the poorest nations, Bill Gates has set out to solve a problem like climate change. Rather than flighty moonbeams, he is putting his faith in moonshot technologies, which he believes will create solutions to the world’s thorniest problem.
“Two decades ago, I would never have predicted that one day I would be talking in public about climate change, much less writing a book about it,” says Gates, who founded Microsoft in 1975. His background is in “software, not climate science” and today he is “super-focused” on global health, development and education via the foundation he runs with his wife Melinda.
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