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New Scientist, 24th July, 2004
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Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it. The blueprint is practical at a personal level but the challenge he throws out is to governments and business: do they have the political courage to take the necessary steps to avert the end of the world? He anticipates the counter-arguments and gives the reader the ammunition to challenge the prevailing inaction in these areas.
Stimulating, challenging, frightening but also practical, this is a book that will help you make a difference.
Climate change is the most important issue of our age - perhaps of any age. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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There are steps we can take: as individuals, as electors, as members of pressure groups, etc. I would recommend it to anyone who thinks that they know the issues (I thought I did, but there was a lot here that I didn't know), anyone who prefers not to look too closely because they know there is a problem but don't want to think too hard about it, or anyone that thinks that technology will solve the problem eventually and we can carry on regardless.
My favourite quote from the book is: "We didn't move out of the Stone Age because we ran out of stones. We won't move out of the oil age because we have run out of oil."
The section which enables you to work out your own contribution to the problem is a real eye-opener. Few of us are as 'green' as we think we are! Few of us know which reductions really make a difference. Now there is no excuse not to.
Finally, the book explains a fair and just system of reducing our CO2 emissions, and how we as a society and as individuals can track and reduce our own contribution to the problem.
Mayer Hillman adopts just the right tone, neither being too overbearing nor too patronising. The message comes through loud and clear: we are all responsible for climate change due to CO2 emissions, and we must all do something about it.
Required reading for everyone on planet earth.
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