- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1403945780
- ISBN-13: 978-1403945785
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 625,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mark Lynas author of High Tide
'If you're not convinced about climate change, this book will change your mind. It may even change your life.'
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'How can Reay be this wise, and still so funny? He has written a brilliant book. Read it and see.'
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More than an emissions reduction manual,
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This review is from: Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming (Hardcover)
This book is easy to read, the metaphores are simple and powerful and the jokes are funny if a little ironic. It's more than an emissions reduction manual because Dave Reay gets inside your head through his fictitious family the Carbones. Ma and Pa Carbone start to feel good about themselves as they discover that cutting their emissions brings other benefits, Ma Carbone is proud of her organic vegetable patch and Pa saves money at work by a little thoughtful energy saving.It's quite a useful book if you're already trying to reduce emissions, it explains where some emissions are hidden and ways to avoid these and points out easy ways to make reductions that seem obvious after you've read them. It's very powerful in it's argument that we should be reducing our emissions as much and as soon as posible. This from the author's own feeling which he has poured into his writing and from his consideration of the future life of Lucy Carbone and others.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Climate Change Begins at Home,
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This review is from: Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming (Hardcover)
This is a good book. Dave Reay uses his ironic wit to make the point that our future and our children's future really is in our own hands.As his fictional family the 'Carbone's' become more informed about the causes and potential effects of climate change they also find ways to reduce their own climate impacts. This turns out to be surprisingly easy. Offsetting as a techinique for reducing personal emissions is viewed a little negatively. It does, however, offer the potential to 'cancel out' unavoidable emissions and also raises awareness of the issue. Overall this is a well written book, amusing to read and packed full of facts and information. Buy it, read it and choose a future.
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A Book For All Seasons,
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This review is from: Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming (Hardcover)
In spite of its dire warning, this is actually a sane, factual and practical book, one that puts global warming right back where it can make a difference: with each one of us. In a series of highly readable, highly convincing (because the evidence is right there in front of us, and all of it thoroughly footnoted, if we want to check) and highly engaging chapters, Reay shows how every action by every individual has global warming consequences, and moreover can be changed, replaced by something less harmful and with fewer awful consequences for our children's generation. It's a positive book - not that it doesn't make you wince, and even swear from time to time, especially at the persistent stupidity and self-interested shortsightedness of governments and politicians. With being positive comes the right to laugh. We, after all, can do something: we needn't be total victims to this multinational conglomerate or that administration in hock to vested financial interests. We can learn the real implications of our choices and find the alternatives, with the help of this extraordinary book. (What's more, as Dave Reay shows over and over again, we can actually save money by doing so!) Our generation is suffering the consequences of years of our own slaphappy use of energy. What this book shows us is that we can avoid our children, and their children, having to endure far worse consequences of our actions. That's a very positive thought to come away with, and to act on.
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