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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
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Summary

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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Audio chapters 9 and 10 are duplicates of text chapter 6. Otherwise, the book was very good and informative.

No chapter 7

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Loved it!! will probably listen a few more times. A plus plus plus 🙂

Amazing Story

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This audiobook is delivered in a very clear way. I also found it is very hard-hitting at points. It was frightening how little my understanding on certain key topics was. For example the use of antibiotics in animal farming and how criminally wasteful and inefficient certain food productions are. I would recommend everyone listens to this as these are problems that are relevant to all of us even if we don’t realise it yet!

An excellent and easy to understand book on a fascinating topic

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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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