There Is No Planet B
A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition

Completely updated edition; the big picture of how humanity can combat the climate emergency, from a leading environmental author.

Mike Berners-Lee (Author)

9781108821575, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 January 2021

336 pages
19.7 x 12.9 x 2 cm, 0.36 kg

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, pandemics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? How can we take control of technology? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do, as individuals? Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is full of hope, practical, and enjoyable. This is the big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of our day, laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This updated edition has new material on protests, pandemics, wildfires, investments, carbon targets and of course, on the key question: given all this, what can I do?

Acknowledgements
What is New in this Updated Edition? Notes on Units
Introduction
1. Food
2. More on Climate and Environment
3. Energy
4. Travel and Transport
5. Growth, Money and Metrics
6. People and Work
7. Business and Technology
8. Values, Truth and Trust
9. Thinking Skills for Today's World
10. Protest
11. Big-Picture Summary
12. What Can I Do? Summary
Appendix: Climate Emergency Basics
Alphabetical Quick Tour
Notes on Units
Endnotes
Index.

Subject Areas: Social issues: environment & green issues [Children's / Teenage YXZG], Environmental monitoring [TQD], Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX], Sustainability [RNU], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Climate change [RNPG], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], Popular science [PDZ], Social issues & processes [JFF], Food & society [JFCV]