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Bill Gates' 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 primarily includes hydroelectric dams, wind farms, solar panels, and nuclear reactors. When one works with a large batch, they can justify factories that mass produce. Additional factory automation is helpful 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.

The Manhattan 2 Project's [https://www.manhattan2.org/global-decarbonization-initiative Global Decarbonization Plan] is an example of a plan that gets the world to zero emissions. It proposes athat the US Government spend $10B/yr initiative thatto developsdevelop factories that mass produce green energy production equipment.; Theand US givesgive the designs of thesethe factories away for free, to facilitate global decarbonization. The USIt gives instead of sells for selfish reasons. -- itIt does not want harm to come to its shores due to climate change. The plan utilizes factory automation to drive down the cost of green energy to a level below carbon-based fuels;. whichThis causes others to go green since it saves them money. This approach uses a combination of mitigation framework, market forces, automation engineering, and free factory designs to facilitate global decarbonization. From a foreign policy perspective, the US gains international influence viaby freeinjecting key technology into international markets.

The disadvantage of a plan that gets us to zero is it involves trillion of dollars of equipment, and very few people, both inside and outside government, feel qualified to deal with such large numbers.<ref>{{Citation|last=Bill.|first=Gates,|title=How neededto Avoid a Climate Disaster|date=July2021|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1237289604|publisher=Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group|oclc=1237289604|access-date=2021-07-12}}</ref>

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