This book offers the hidden story behind all our everyday things, revealing the cost of well-meaning but muddle-headed thinking.
Fred Pearce is an author and journalist. He is married with grown-up children and lives in Wandsworth in London. For much of the time he works from home. But reporting about environment and development has taken him all over the world for publications such as New Scientist, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, Country Living, Geographical and the Ecologist.
This is a splendid book and will do much good to counteract the
comfortable hypocrisy of urban and suburban greens who pretend to
'save the earth' while carrying on business as usual. Fred Pearce
goes out and sees the world as well as thinking and writing about
it; he is one of the few that understand the Earth as it really is
and we must listen to him.
*James Lovelock, author of THE REVENGE OF GAIA*
Pearce shows us how our greed, and our wilful blindness, are
ruining the world in faraway places . . . An excellent book.
*Guardian*
Sometimes frightening, always enlightening, it will teach you more
about other people's lives than you ever thought possible.
*New Scientist*
Beguiling . . . honest and revealing . . . optimistic . . . A big
book for big problems.
*Country Living*
Follow in his global footprints as you read this compelling,
thoughtful, provocative and utterly fascinating book.
*CHOICE magazine*
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