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Bill Gates's 2021 [[How to Avoid a Climate Disaster|Climate Book]] states the world is failing to meet goals due to a fundamental flaw in approach. He refers to this as "Reduce is not Zero". Reduce involves working on each hydroelectric dam or wind farm separately; whereas Zero involves handling the entire batch of needed equipment at one time. Equipment includes hydroelectric dams, wind farms, solar panels, and nuclear reactors. When one works with a large batch, they can justify factories that mass produce. Factory automation is crucial, since it allows one to handle large volumes at low cost. In order to implement Zero, one needs a [[Low-carbon economy#Decarbonisation plans that get to zero CO2 emissions|plan that describes how to get to zero global CO₂ emissions]]. Currently, the world does not have a plan, and is doing Reduce.

For an example of a plan, one can refer to The Manhattan 2 Project's [https://www.manhattan2.org/global-decarbonization-initiative Global Decarbonization Plan]. Thisis entailsan example of a plan that gets the world to zero emissions. It does it with a US Government spending $10B/yr toinitiative that developdevelops factories that mass produce green energy production equipment. The US gives the designs of these factories away for free, to facilitate global decarbonization. The US gives instead of sells for selfish reasons -- it does not want harm to come to its shores due to climate change. Factory automation drives down the cost of green energy to a level below carbon-based fuels; which causes others to go green since it saves them money. This approach uses a combination of market forces, free factory designs, automation engineering, and foreign policy, and ''plan'' to facilitate global decarbonization.

The disadvantage of a plan that gets us to zero is it involves at trillion dollars of equipment, and very few people, both inside and outside government, feel qualified to deal with such large numbers.

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