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Andrew Simms
Joe Smith
Climate change is presented by campaign groups and scientists as an impossibly daunting threat. This book brings together household names who share a conviction that, on the contrary, living well needn't cost the earth - and will tell you why and how.
Climate change is currently presented by campaign groups and scientists as an impossibly daunting threat. On the face of it, it would seem we must make impossible sacrifices if we want to do our bit for the environment and lead more sustainable, less damaging lives. This book shows that isn't the case at all.It brings together household names who share a conviction that, on the contrary, living well needn't cost the earth – and will tell you why and how. Their collective vision, covering areas from architecture and politics to food and happiness, will completely reframe the way you think about climate change and what you're willing to do about it.
Far from the usual doom and gloom, many here argue that climate change presents a once-in-a-century opportunity to address a whole basket of problems with energy and imagination. If we get things right, instead of an environmental apocalypse we could end up in a win-win situation – with both more satisfying lives and robust answers to these pressing, seemingly unsurmountable, problems.
Contributions include:
Phillip Pullman, A C Grayling, Oliver James and John Bird on love, happiness and telling tales
Kevin McCloud, Nic Marks, Stephen Bayley and Wayne Hemingway on good design.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Colin Tudge and Rosie Boycott on good and sustainable food.
David Cameron and Caroline Lucas on the politics of the good life.
Tom Hodgkinson, David Boyle and David Goldblatt on having a good time.
Anita Roddick, Adair Turner, Ann Pettifor and Larry Elliott on good business and work.
Sales points
Big names on a hot topic packaged together,Not a (dull) green guide, not a (dense) enviro-treatise: trusted, passionate experts coming together for a shared cause and aim to reach as many 'normal' people as possible,Huge media and other publicity potential,Andrew Simms is the author of the bestselling Tescopoly,Part of broader and longer campaign – Interdependence Day – from highly respected think-and-do tank NEF and the Open University
Constable
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 24th Jan 2008
ISBN: 9781845296438
Markets: World
RRP £7.99
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 24th Jan 2008
ISBN: 9781845296438
Markets: World
RRP £7.99
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"The marvellous thing about reading this book is that, at the end, you feel as though you have read about fifty ... [its] different facets add up to one illuminating whole."
Resurgence
"An eloquent and persuasive account of modern corporate greed, and how and why we should resist it... should make all but the Gordon Geckos of this world determined to do something about it."
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
"Terrific ... no one can read this book and ever think of supermarkets as benign and life enhancing again."
Rosie Boycott
Rosie Boycott
"Simms shows the creeping, invading unsustainable world of the supershop, its tentacles strangling the life out of our communities. Read it."
John Bird, founder of The Big Issue
John Bird, founder of The Big Issue
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