![]() “I want to go wider to look at things other than climate change”, Berners-Lee writes, “deeper into an even bigger issue of which climate change is just a symptom and more practically to look at how humanity can find its way through some uncharted waters, and what any of us might do to help.” Finally, we get to the values that we hold as individuals and societies, and even the nature of truth. A recurring theme is that everything is connected to everything else, and so as the book goes on it begins to dig deeper into business structures, population and work. It starts with climate science and the impact of food, energy, transport and so on, with some of most concise and clear summaries of the issues you’ll find anywhere. ![]() Intended as a ‘handbook for the make or break years’, as the subtitle puts it, the book is written as questions and answers. Almost a decade on from that, There is no planet B is just as informative and entertaining, but broader in scope and more urgent in tone. Mike Berners-Lee is a climate change researcher and author of the excellent How bad are bananas?, an attempt to quantify ‘the carbon footprint of everything’. ![]()
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