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There Is No Planet B

A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

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There Is No Planet B

By: Mike Berners-Lee
Narrated by: Mike Berners-Lee
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Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, and plastics - the list of concerns seems endless.

But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do?

Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think.

This book will shock you, surprise you, and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this - our only - planet.

©2019 Mike Berners-Lee (P)2019 Mike Berners-Lee Environment Science Vegetarian Solar System Sustainability Capitalism
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I have enjoyed listening to this book a lot, but I wish chapter 7 of the book had been included. Instead book chapter 6 is repeated and then we move on to chapter 8 of the book. (The relevant 'chapters' of the audiobook are chapters 9 and 10.)

Great book, wish all the chapters were here!

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If you eat food; move by any means; ever buy anything; or live on planet Earth, you’ll find something interesting and thought-provoking in this audiobook.
In an excellent reading of his own book, Berners-Lee introduces a lightness, modesty and occasional humour to make this less a polemic than a very balanced, open-minded injection of ideas to live by.

Essential reading

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This is a great book to give an insite into the problem of today's anthropogenic culture of convienve and comfort.
The audio book is well presented and was good to listen to.

Great book to give an insite.

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This is a very well written book and the author did a great job narrating. I had found it difficult to gain a concise view of the environmental struggles we face as a global society until I listened to this book. Particularly eye-opening were the numbers highlighting the inefficiencies of consuming calories and macro/micro nutrients through ruminating, human-edible-food-fed animals such as cows and sheep. I have started to make a conscious effort to consume less meat as a result, mostly to help reduce the environmental impact of current practices through lower demand, but also because now I realise that alternative ways to incorporate protein etc. into my diet exist, which also happen to be more consistent with sustainable practices.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who would generally like to know more about the numbers behind the environmental challenges we face and how feasible currently proposed solutions are.

Eye/ear-opening!

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Am I the only listener to notice that chapter 6 was repeated and chapter 7 not present? This is playing in the cloud player on 22/Fen/.2020, so it isn't a download or device issue.

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