Book description
From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or
even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we
need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or
so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the
footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about. He helps us
pick our battles by laying out the orders of magnitude. The book ranges
from the everyday (foods, books, plastic bags, bikes, flights, baths...)
and the global (deforestation, data centres, rice production, the World
Cup, volcanoes, ...) Be warned, some of the things you thought you knew
about green living may be about to be turned on their head. Never
preachy but packed full of information and always entertaining. MIKE
BERNERS-LEE is the founding director of an associate company of
Lancaster University which specialises in organisational responses to
climate change.
