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The Big Earth Book (Hardcover)

by James Bruges (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Alastair Sawday's (27 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901970876
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901970876
  • Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 20 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future

Time is running out. Don't despair. Do get angry. Do get active. And do buy The Big Earth Book to get all that in perspective.


Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association

This is a wonderful book - really informative but written in a very clear, easy-to-read way
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5.0 out of 5 stars an essential for every bookshelf, 6 Nov 2007
By S. Hayman "constant reader" (northern england) - See all my reviews
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"But what can I, as an individual, do?" "Energy saving and buying organic costs so much - why should I?" "Global warming? But I thought that was all exaggerated?" If any of these thoughts have ever popped into your mind, or been thrown at you by friends, family, work colleagues, you need this book. Actually, we all need this book before The Big Earth, which really ain't so big after all, goes down the tube. If you want one book to draw the whole shebang of environmental, economic and social ideas together, this is it.

James Bruges covers just about every single global environmental issue in what at first looks like a weighty tome but in fact is both accessible and compelling. In short, sharp bursts the reader is led through Life, The Earth and Everything. The book is divided into 4 sections; The Elements, Money, Power and Life. In Elements he looks at Air, including ozone layers and global warming; Earth, including energy and carbon offset schemes; Fire, including gas, biofuels and nuclear energy; and Water, including fresh water and oceans. In Money he explains Systems, such as usury and greed, monetary reform and global eco-economy; Ideas such as Land Value Tax and Interest Free banking; and Community with issues such as basic needs and Wealth in Poverty. In Power he analyses Trade, covering issues such as thirds world debt and oil for dollars; War with a devastating analysis of the arms trade and terrorism and a picture of alternatives to violence in Tools For Peace; Corporate with a look at Shareholders "and the divine right of capital; and Empire, with a look at the US Empire and new empires in the East. Finally, in Life he looks at Nature, organic farming and soil; Food and GM and a truly terrifying account of the consequences to one scientist of speaking out; Science with excursions into Nanotechnology, Commercial Eugenics, Patenting Life.


The Big Earth Book is full of arresting insights and downright scary facts. If you buy baby sweet corn from Peru for your stir fries while worrying about house insulation and petrol you need to know that the typical family of four expends 40 comparative energy units on food whilst `only' using 17 on house heating and 15 on car use. The message being if you want to make a difference forget the car and the house - source your food locally and seasonally. And the book is full of ideas you can make effective in your own life, in your community's life and most important on a world scale. As Bruges points out, "Where governments fail to act, individuals can take the initiative - in how they travel, how they heat their homes, how they eat. Their choice of lifestyle will contribute to climate survival. It will also influence politicians who, having failed to lead, will be forced to follow."


You'll want The Big Earth Book for yourself - to show you not only why you should get angry but how you can get effective. You'll want it for your children, to explain to them all the bits you vaguely know but are having difficulty pulling together. And you'll want it for your friends, to show them why turning off lights and using your own shopping bag is so important. I've revised my shopping list for Christmas. Hope none of my friends read this - it will spoil the surprise as they're all getting it in their stockings!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This Earth, 12 Nov 2007
By PG Collings (Nottingham,UK) - See all my reviews
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An angry passion has stimulated this bright and beautifully produced book which should be required reading for all non-specialist environmentalists.Remarkably informative two to three page digests of major topics and issues as diverse as Biofuel and Monetary Reform, the Arms Trade and the measurement of happiness are included.Paper,lay-out and some stunning photography all contribute to the feel of a good book. Direct quotes and useful final sections of References,Glossary and Index point the way to further reading for those who would go deeper. The author, an admirer of Ghandi, is intent on stimulating non-violent action but does not pull his punches in namimg and shaming incompetence or failure however high the office.
This reader was pleased to dip and mix from the book's huge agenda - there are many lighter moments as well as poems and apt quotations from the great and good. The earth will certainly get value for money from changes which readers may make after reading the Big Earth Book.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly insprirational, 10 Oct 2007
By Ms. N. J. Johansen (Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This book is one of those books where by you become more interested with every page and before you know it, you are whizzing through the pages, engrossed in all of the new ideas and theories.
A fascinating read especially in todays climate. Definatley worth a look.
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