How to Spend a Trillion Dollars - Hardcover

By: Rowan Hooper;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Finance - Business - Economics, Science,

ISBN: 9781788163453

SKU: BE500240934980

Pages: 288

Description: People say the world is beyond repair. That's because some people don't want to fix it. Hooper analyzes ten megaprojects, valued at one trillion dollars, with which we could: eradicate malaria, launch an interstellar mission to another star, build a massive particle accelerator, end global poverty, build new types of quantum computers, and develop artificial consciousness. Or increase human life expectancy, complete the transition to renewable energy, buy and protect rainforests, try to save all endangered species, refreeze the melting Arctic ice, or launch an innovative and sustainable agricultural revolution. Oh, and start a settlement on the Moon. That is, if anyone wants to leave a planet that is finally cleaner, fairer, and more humane.