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Speed & Scale

A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

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Speed & Scale

By: John Doerr
Narrated by: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, Badri Kothandaraman, Bruce Nilles, Jagdeep Singh, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jan Van Dokkum, Christiana Figueres, Fred Krupp
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping-and actionable-plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge: climate change.

In 2006, John Doerr was challenged by his fifteen-year-old daughter to solve the climate crisis. And for 15 years, that has been his goal.

Despite many solutions already being in hand-batteries, electric vehicles, solar and wind power- global warming has continued to worsen as we lack the policy, investment, and global consensus to fully deploy them. We need a clear course of action.

Using Objectives and Key Results, the tool that has helped Google and many other start-ups achieve awe-inspiring goals, Doerr presents an action plan to safeguard the planet for generations to come. Speed & Scale identifies what we need to do to cut emissions across every sector and reach net zero by 2050, with clear-eyed realism and scientific precision.

Doerr weaves his hard-won cleantech lessons with first-hand accounts from Bill Gates, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Jeff Bezos, and dozens of other bold climate leaders.Speed & Scale is a call to arms for humankind, a launchpad for ambitious leaders who are ready to act now.

© John Doerr 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Critic reviews

This book is a critical blueprint for anyone looking to take concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions. Unlike many who simply issue ambiguous long-dated pledges to help solve the climate crisis, John Doerr understands the urgent need to ACT quickly and decisively. With Speed & Scale, he combines his extensive experience as a legendary technology expert and investor with his tried-and-true management methods to put forward a clear, detailed, and comprehensive plan for climate action exactly when we need it most.
John Doerr is the world's leading mind on turning truly audacious goals into objectives and key results. In this culminating contribution, he performs an inspired act of world leadership: plying his craft to create a comprehensive plan to tackle one of the most vexing challenges in human history.
With personal insight and visionary foresight, Doerr provides us with a practical guide for both public and private sector participation in decarbonizing the global economy, a task as challenging as it is urgent.
Speed & Scale is critical reading for anyone who wants to take action on the most important issue of our time: climate change. It's a challenge that feels impossible to solve, but Doerr outlines a clear path forward and how we can get involved to make an impact.
A practical path inthe fight against climate change...Doerr approaches the problem as a hard-nosed businessman who sees an opportunity, creates a plan, and organizes resources before moving ahead. Using this approach and prose that is superior to many similar books, the author crafts a specific, comprehensible description of the elements that contribute to climate change and what needs to be done...Throughout, readers are guided by ingenious illustrations and often startling facts.
John Doerr is a man with a plan for our planet - and boy do we need one. Keep away if you don't think commerce can play a creative role... or don't want deep dive analytics from someone who is always measuring what matters. He matters.
A brilliant, unputdownable treatise to focus attention on the most important problem of our times.
Immaculately researched [and] eminently readable. (Jon Swarz)
A clear, accessible and actionable plan...the single best guide to thinking about climate policy. (Fareed Zakaria)
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A incredible listen - back of a napkin to solve our climate crisis….thank you John Doerr

Wow - a tour de force, accessible and practical

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I found this book to be educational and inspiring. A valuable read for everyone who cares about our shared future and wants to align to a plan and contribute.

An important work and educational

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hmm, expected more from a fellow, & much more successful, VC. Couldn't finish it. Hopefully someone who can deliver will be learn something from his hard-worked thoughts.

dull

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